Two-time Medal of Honor recipients

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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Chapters: Albert Weisbogel, Daniel Daly, Ernest A. Janson, Frank Baldwin, Henry Hogan, John H. Pruitt, John J. Kelly, John King (Medal of Honor), John Lafferty, John Laver Mather Cooper, John McCloy (Medal of Honor), Louis Cukela, Ludwig Andreas Olsen, Matej Kocak, Patrick Mullen (Medal of Honor), Robert Augustus Sweeney, Smedley Butler, Thomas Custer, William Wilson (Medal of Honor). Excerpt: Boxer Rebellion Banana Wars Mexican Revolution World War I Smedley Darlington Butler (July 30, 1881 - June 21, 1940) was a Major General in the U.S. Marine Corps, an outspoken critic of U.S. military adventurism, and at the time of his death the most decorated Marine in U.S. history. During his 34-year career as a Marine, he participated in military actions in the Philippines, China, in Central America and the Caribbean during the Banana Wars, and France in World War I. By the end of his career, he had received 16 medals, five for heroism. He is one of 19 men to twice receive the Medal of Honor, one of three to be awarded both the Marine Corps Brevet Medal and the Medal of Honor, and the only marine to be awarded the Brevet Medal and two Medals of Honor, all for separate actions. In his 1935 book War is a Racket, he described the workings of the military-industrial complex and, after retiring from service, became a popular speaker at meetings organized by veterans, pacifists and church groups in the 1930s. In 1934, he became involved in a controversy known as the Business Plot, when he told a congressional committee that a group of wealthy industrialists were planning a military coup to overthrow Franklin D. Roosevelt. The purported plotters wanted Butler to lead a mass of armed veterans in a march on Washington and then become a dictator. Butler never met with any of the principals, and the individuals supposedly involved all denied the existence of a plot. The media ridiculed the allegations. Biographer Hans Schmidt portrays him as the victim of a small-time trickster. Butler lectured widely throughout the 1930s. Smedley Butler was born July 30, 1881, in West Chester, Pennsylvania, the eldest of three sons. His parents Thomas Stalker Butler and Maud (Darlington) Butler were descended from local Quaker families. His father was a lawyer, a judge and, for 31 years, a Congressman and chair of the House Naval Affairs Committee during the Harding and Coolidge administra