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Wilford Joseph Hoff, Jr
W.J. Hoff, known universally as Buddy, spent his professional career as a United States Army Officer, with his culminating assignment allowing him to spend thirty almost-continuous years at the United States Military Academy, West Point, NY. The last ten years of this assignment, he served as the Professor and Head of the Department of Chemistry. He was retired and promoted to Brigadier General on June 1988.

Personal life
Born to Dorothy Padgett Hoff and Wilford Joseph Hoff in   1928, he was raised in a typical near poverty house with extended famlity, and three younger sisters. The first from his family to go to college, he was sponsored at The Citadel in Charleston SC, by an uncle. Marriage at 21 Korea at 22 children

Post-retirement activities
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