- Born
- August 17, 1896
- Died
- July 13, 1970 (aged 73)
- Place of birth
- Albany, New York, USA
- Also known as
- Leslie Richard Groves Jr., Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves Jr., Lieutenant General Leslie Groves
Biography
Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves Jr. was a United States Army Corps of Engineers officer who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and directed the Manhattan Project, a top secret research project that developed the atomic bomb during World War II.