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=====John McMillan=====
Commissioner **John McMillan**

^Commissioner John McMillan||
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^Rank|Commissioner|
^Birth Date|c. 1874|
^Death Date|September 22, 1939|
^Relations|[[Frances White McMillan|Commissioner Frances McMillan (wife)]]|
^ |[[McMillan|McMillan Family]]|

====Appointments====
^Appointment^Rank^From^Until^
|Private Secretary to the Commander - [[Canada and Bermuda Territory]]| | | |
|Australia| |1896| |
|Field Secretary - Australia| |(1902)|August 4, 1916|
|Chief Secretary - [[Canada and Bermuda Territory]]|Colonel|August 4, 1916|October 31, 1923|
|Territorial Commander - [[Central Territory]]|Commissioner|1923|(1930)|
|Territorial Commander - [[Eastern Territory]]|Commissioner|(1930)|January 13, 1935|
|Territorial Commander - [[Canada and Bermuda Territory]]|Commissioner|January 13, 1935|July 25, 1937|
|Chief of Staff - [[International Headquarters]]|Commissioner|July 25, 1937|September 22, 1939|

====Medicine: Sin and Food====
Why girls go wrong, and boys too, a Chicago Salvation Army officer surmised last week. He, Commissioner John McMillan, found by observation that three out of five women and every other man whom the Army has helped suffered from malnutrition when young. Their parents had not prevented them from guzzling, or had not given them enough to eat. or were ignorant of the essentials of a balanced diet. Opined the Commissioner: good food will make good morals.
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//Time Magazine, September 9, 1929//

====Religion: Mapp Out====
An old and bitter contest between two potent oldsters [[Evangeline Booth|General Evangeline Booth]], 71, and [[Henry Mapp|Commissioner Henry W. Mapp]]; 67—to control the world-wide Salvation Army flared up again last week for perhaps the last time. Tall, ruddy Henry Mapp came within the orbit of the Booth dynasty in India 50 years ago, when he joined the Army under Commissioner Edward Booth-Tucker, son-in-law of [[William Booth|Founder William Booth]]. Mapp moved upward alone, to become the Army's Chief-of-Staff, administrator of some 26,000 officers and candidate for its Generalship when General Edward John Higgins made ready to retire. But formidable Evangeline won that post (TIME, Sept. 10, 1934) Implacably last week she ousted Commissioner Mapp from his.
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General Booth had cut short a world tour, hastened from the Orient to London. Soon Commissioner Mapp took to his bed with high blood pressure, and his superior caused it to be announced that he was taking an extended furlough because of ill health. Commissioner Mapp, however, as if calling a bluff, demanded, under Army rules, a hearing before a secret court of inquiry. The five-officer court unanimously convicted Commissioner Mapp of whatever charges General Booth had brought against him. and gossips said that those charges involved "a woman." Indignant Commissioner Mapp announced he would sue for defamation of character.
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Commissioner Mapp's successor as Chief of Staff: Commissioner John McMillan, 63, Scottish-born onetime secretary to Herbert Booth, Evangeline's brother, onetime commander of Central and Eastern territories in the U. S.
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//Time Magazine, May 31, 1937//

====External====
  * [[https://www.nytimes.com/1930/07/03/archives/salvation-army-greets-new-chief-commissioner-mcmillan-now-commander.html|SALVATION ARMY GREETS NEW CHIEF; Commissioner McMillan, Now Commander of the Eastern Area, Honored at Meeting. HE SUCCEEDS R.E. HOLZ Welcomed in New Memorial Hall --Shifted Here From Central Territory of Organization]]
  * [[https://time.com/archive/6743396/medicine-sin-food/|Medicine: Sin and Food]]
  * [[https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,847896,00.html|Religion: Mapp Out]]
  * [[https://salvationist.ca/archives-and-museum/people/john-mcmillan/|John McMillan - Canada and Bermuda Territory]]
  * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McMillan_(Salvation_Army_officer)|Wikipedia]]