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CLASS OF 1897
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Assigned to the 10th Cavalry (Negro) after graduating from West Point, McCoy saw action in Cuba and was wounded at San Juan Hill. In the Philippines,
he led a daring 1905 raid into the jungle that killed the rebel Moro chieftain Datu Ali and many of his followers.
He later saw combat along the Mexican border and commanded a brigade in World War I.
But McCoy’s most notable achievements were political and diplomatic. A protégé of Gen.
Leonard Wood and President Theodore Roosevelt, McCoy’s civil–military duties spanned three decades:
directing relief efforts after the 1923 Tokyo earthquake; supervising elections and maintaining public order in Nicaragua in 1927;
delegate to the 1928 Pan–American Conference; working for the League of Nations; heading the Foreign Policy Association;
and negotiating terms of the American occupation of Japan after World War II.
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