Brigadier General John C. "Doc" Bahnsen Jr. (born November 8 1934) was born to John C. Bahnsen and Evelyn Williams in Albany Georgia. His nickname "Doc" stems from his grandfather Dr. Peter F. Bahnsen who immigrated with his parents to the United States from Denmark In 1890 became Georgia's first state veterinarian and operated a state-of-the-art dairy farm in Americus Georgia.



