LUCIUS FRANKLIN BADGER, JR.

Lucius Franklin Badger, Jr. was born in 1893 and received his M.D. from the University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Minneapolis, in 1921. He began his medical practice in San Luis Obisbo, California.

Joining the United States Public Health Service on October 22, 1924, Dr. Badger was stationed at Angel Island, San Francisco. His next move brought him into Honolulu aboard the Army transport, "Somme", arriving May 20, 1926. He relieved Dr. L.W. Tucker at the Quarantine Station where he remained until 1928 or 1929. In 1931 he was in Washington, D.C. serving at the National Institute of Health. By 1936 Dr. Badger had returned to Honolulu with the rank of Surgeon and was assigned to the Leprosy Investigation Station. Leaving Honolulu in 1938 or 1939, he was reassigned to Washington, D.C. and the National Institute of Health. He moved to Bethesda, Maryland, in 1942 when the Institute was relocated there. By 1950 Dr. Badger was Medical Director and in charge of the USPHS Office of Indian Affairs at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. His last post was in Atlanta, Georgia.

On retirement Dr. Badger first lived in Decatur, Georgia, for a number of years. Later he moved to Chevy Chase, Maryland, where he died December 9, 1972, at the age of 80. He is survived by his daughter, Miss Margaret A. Badger.

He was a member of the American Medical Association and was certified by the American Board of Preventive Medicine.

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