Glenn L. Emmons: Difference between revisions

Emmons was born in 1895 in Alabama, to John Davidson Emmons (June 30, 1853 - unknown), and Martha Jane Emmons (March 22, 1865 - unknown). He had 8 Siblings, his family moved to [[Albuquerque, New Mexico]] in 1905<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Affairs|first=United States Congress Senate Committee on Interior and Insular|url=https://books.google.co.il/books?id=Gv8uAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1&hl=iw&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=Nomination of Glenn L. Emmons: Hearings Before the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate Eighty-third Congress, First Session, on the Nomination of Glenn L. Emmons to be Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. July 15 and 28, 1953|date=1953|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|language=en}}</ref>, Where he learned in a public school and subsequently, attended the University of New Mexico

In 1917, he left university was drafted to serve in [[World War I]], and served in the United States Army until he was discharged in 1929, he served as a first leiutenant in the Air Corps<ref>{{Cite web|title=Glenn L. Emmons Nominated for Indian Post {{!}} Indian Affairs|url=https://www.bia.gov/as-ia/opa/online-press-release/glenn-l-emmons-nominated-indian-post|access-date=2021-01-25|website=www.bia.gov}}</ref> After he was discharged, he moved to [[Gallup, New Mexico]], where he worked in the Banking Buisness running a small country bank<ref name=":0" /> Emmons has served on the Public Relations Committee, Executive Council, Finance Committee, and Small Buisness Operations Committee of the [[American Bankers Association]], and served as its Treasurer from 1949 to 1951. He also served as the President of the New Mexico Bankers Association.<ref name=":0" />