 Before marriage, however, he was called to duty during World War I as part of the United States Army in Company L, 137th Infantry, 35th Division.His love of civic duty and military honor would later lead him to military prestige as a Colonel during World War II - serving in Alabama, Arkansas, Virginia, Alaska, and Korea under a special team championed by General Douglas MacArthur out of the Dai Ichi Building.Aside from serving as the longest-practicing attorney in Lyons County, Wilford was a Republican member of both the Kansas House of Representatives and the Kansas Senate for multiple terms.