This is a photograph of Arthur Jehu Stanley, Jr. as a member of the 7th Cavalry at Fort Bliss, Texas. When he turned 17, he left high school and enlisted in the U. S. Army, where he participated in the Punitive Expedition to Mexico in pursuit of Pancho Villa. Stanley later joined the Navy and served on the U.S.S. Pidgeon. At the start of World War II, Stanley was called to active duty as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army. Serving with the Ninth Fighter Command, he was involved in the planning and preparation for the Normandy invasion. As a civilian, Stanley was a lawyer in private practice with his father, a Kansas senator, and finally nominated to the U.S. District Court by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.