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Franklin D'Olier

Franklin Woolman D'Olier (April 28, 1877 – December 10, 1953) was the first national commander of the American Legion and served in that capacity from 1919 to 1920. Like all of the original American Legion membership, D'Olier was a veteran of The Great War. D'Olier was also a prominent businessman and the great-grandfather of ''Superman'' actor Christopher Reeve.〔http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=2942〕 He is the grandfather of the late poet, writer, and editor F. D. Reeve.
==Background==
D'Olier was born in Burlington, New Jersey, the son of Annie Kay (née Woolman) and Irish-born William D'Olier.〔http://www.wargs.com/other/reeve.html〕 Franklin D'Olier was the head of the yarn merchants, D'Olier & Company, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when he was elected as the first national commander at the Minneapolis convention in 1919. A Quaker from Pennsylvania, an 1898 graduate of Princeton University, and a veteran of World War I, D'Olier was 42 years old when he became the head of the American Legion. He was described by Pulitzer prize winning author Marquis James as, ''"A conservative in almost everything; the superlative forms of speech could be striken from the language without dimishing his ability to express himself with the same unmistakable clarity and effect; a quiet, serene, unruffled man with a serene, unruffled, analytical mind; an admirable compromiser and conciliator; a tolerant and agreeable man, always willing to hear the fellow's other side and a wizard at converting people to his own side so adroitly that they are apt to be unaware of the change."'' (''A History of the American Legion" by Marquis James. Pgs 135–136. Wm Green. 1923.)

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