Air Command and former commander of United States Central Command (CENTCOM), General John Abizaid. Throughout Olmsted's career, he had been a champion of the concepts of better education, jobs, and opportunities for all people. In the fields of banking and insurance, he brought availability and affordability of products and services to a market that was battered by the Great Depression. He carried on the dream of Arthur J. Morris, the founder of Financial General Corporation, that "anyone who has a steady job can qualify for installment credit from a bank". Olmsted died at his home in North Arlington, Virginia, on October 8, 1998, after a long period of incapacitation due to a stroke in the mid-1980s. He and his second wife Carol Shearing (1909–1993) are buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. His grandfather Jerauld Aubrey Olmsted and son George Hamden Olmsted Jr. were also West Point graduates. His older brother Jerauld Lockwood Olmsted attended the Naval Academy but died from polio only a year after graduation. See also List of Chairpersons of the College Republicans Notes References External links The George and Carol Olmsted Foundation official website George H. Olmsted at ArlingtonCemetery.net, an unofficial website Generals of World War II 1901 births 1998 deaths United States Army generals United States Military Academy alumni Businesspeople from Des Moines, Iowa Iowa State University alumni College Republican National Committee chairs Recipients of the Distinguished Service Medal (US Army) Recipients of the Legion of Merit Recipients of the Legion of Honour Honorary Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Recipients of the Order of the Sacred Tripod 20th-century American businesspeople Burials at Arlington National Cemetery United States Army generals of World War II Military personnel from Iowa