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<em>Timothy Lawrence Mulligan </em>was born in New York City on April 18, 1904, the son of Lawrence and Harriet Dexter Mulligan. He attended grammar school at Sound Beach, Connecticut, and took his high school training at the New York Military Academy at Cornwall, New York. He graduated from West Point on June 12, 1925 and was commissioned a second lieutenant, Corps of Engineers, on that same date. He died at Tokyo, Japan, on September 29, 1948. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery a month later.</p>
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Tim, as he was known to his classmates and Army friends, or Larry, as he was called by his parents and by his sisters, Pat and Kay, was a native born New Yorker, who glorified in the fact. His father was a famous sportsman and a power in New York Democratic politics. His uncle was the renowned “Big Tim” Sullivan. Tim was devoted to his family and his family was, in turn, devoted to him. The Mulligan family extended its interest beyond Tim to his classmates and friends at West Point. While Tim was a cadet, the Mulligan manage was a rendezvous for many a West Pointer.</p>
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Upon graduation, Tim was assigned to the 13th Engineers at Fort Humphreys, Virginia. He spent a year there and then went to Cornell University for another year to receive his degree in Civil Engineering. From Cornell, he went back to Fort Humphreys to complete the Company Officer Course at The Engineer School. Upon graduation from The Engineer School, Tim went to the 1st Engineers at Fort DuPont, Delaware. After 16 months at that location he went to Nicaragua with the U.S. Army Engineer Battalion engaged in making a survey for a proposed canal. He was promoted a first lieutenant while he was in Nicaragua, approximately 5% years after graduation. He returned to the 1st Engineers at Fort DuPont in July 1931 but stayed there only 8 months. He then returned to Nicaragua to become officer-in-charge of the Hydrographic Office of the Nicaragua Canal Survey. Two things of great personal importance happened to Tim during this tour of duty. First of all, he was laid low by a very bad case of malaria. It is most probable that the heart condition that eventually caused Tim’s death was started by the attack of malaria which he suffered in 1932 and 1933. The second event of importance was his meeting and marrying the beautiful and charming Julia Benard de Guzman of Granada. From the time of their marriage in June 1934, Tim and Julia were a wonderful team.</p>
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They left Nicaragua in August 1934 when Tim was sent to the New York Engineer District. After two years in New York, Tim was sent to the Clarkson College of Technology at Potsdam, New York, to become Professor of Military Science and Tactics for the new Engineer ROTC Unit that was being set up at that installation. Tim made a phenomenal success of the new ROTC unit, and when he left that detail in 1940, both the Faculty and the Board of Trustees of Clarkson College officially expressed their appreciation of his great accomplishments and regret at his departure.</p>
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In 1940, Tim and Julia left Clarkson and the Adirondacks for Laredo, Texas and the 8th Mounted Engineers. Tim’s service there was brief for he was soon called upon to assist in setting up an Engineer Replacement Training Center at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. After one year on that job, he accompanied Colonel Dan Noce to Camp Edwards, Massachusetts, to assist in the formation of the Engineer Amphibian Command. There he served as Director of Personnel, as Chief of Staff, and finally as Commanding Officer of the Engineer Amphibian Command.</p>
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In January 1944, Tim went to England where he served as Deputy Commander of the Provisional Engineer Special Brigade Group under General Bill Hoge. When the Commanding Officer of the 6th Engineer Special Brigade was wounded at Omaha Beach on D-Day, Tim took over the job as Brigade Commander and held it until October 1944. Then he was returned to Headquarters of the Army Services Forces in the Pentagon to serve in the Training Division.</p>
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In April 1945, he was sent as Executive Officer to Headquarters of the Construction Service of MIDPAC. There in November 1945, he suffered what was believed to be a heart attack. He was sent to Birmingham General Hospital in California for observation, but was released in January 1946. In March 1946, he was assigned as Deputy Division Engineer for the Western Ocean Division in San Francisco. In August 1947, he was sent to the Far East to become Engineer of the Far East Air Force. He was serving in that capacity when he died of a sudden heart attack on September 29, 1948.</p>
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Tim’s military career was one fully worthy of his Alma Mater. His record is filled with commendatory words from such famous soldiers as Frank R. McCoy, Hugh A. Drum, Wilhelm D. Styer, Lytle Brown, Dan I. Sultan, Leslie R. Groves, Daniel Noce and William A. Hoge. These and many other famous officers paid glowing tributes to Tim’s fine military performance. However, just as important are the tributes to Tim’s military worth paid him by the enlisted men who served with him, one of whom journeyed half way across the country to be present at his funeral. Tim was a tough soldier and a hard taskmaster, but he was scrupulously fair and fiercely loyal both to his superiors and his subordinates.</p>
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Before he was married, Tim was a carefree bachelor, but at the same time a devoted son and loving brother. When Tim married Julia, he became no less devoted to his mother and to his sisters, but at the same time he became a sterling example for a husband and a father. Those of us who knew him in his bachelor days were surprised at the blissful domesticity that Tim later achieved.</p>
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Tim was not a very friendly person, although he liked people. He was inclined to be distant and a bit forbidding to new acquaintances. But when Tim became your friend, there was no more loyal friend in the world, and to be a friend of his meant that you could depend on Tim in any crisis of any nature. But always, as he was lending every effort to help out, Tim would relieve the tension of the situation with some choice “bon mot” that his wonderful sense of humor had created.</p>
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Julia, Tim’s widow of South Buchanan Street, Arlington, Virginia, together with her three daughters: June Ann, Patricia, and Mary Jane. Larry, Tim’s and Julia’s son, is a member of the Class of 1957 at the Military Academy. Julia occasionally lends her charming presence to get-togethers of the Class of 1925 in the Washington area.</p>
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<em>—G. E. G.</em></p>