Glen Edgar Edgerton (April 17, 1887 – April 9, 1976) was a United States Army officer, who served as governor of the Panama Canal Zone from 1940 to 1944.[1]
He served as Panama Canal maintenance engineer from 1936 to 1940. He was governor of the Panama Canal Zone from 1940 to 1944.[6] He retired from the army in 1949 and in that year became project manager for the White House interior reconstruction project, leaving a project to divert the Euphrates River in Iraq to do so.[7] He died on April 9, 1976, at Bethesda Naval Hospital.[8]