U.S.W.V. Commander-in-chiefs (Photo Gallery)




All photos contributed by Eugene Beals (Except those by George Kane* & Tom Thiessen and Bill Gonyo* where noted)


Harold C. McGrew* 1904 Indiana	William E. English* 1904-1905 Indiana	Charles R. Miller* 1906 Ohio
Hamilton Ward* 1907 California	Walter S. Hale* 1907-1908 California	Charles W. Newton* 1908-1909 Connecticut
Edward J. Gihon* 1909-1910 Massachusetts	Joseph R.H. Jacoby* 1910-1911 Washington & Alaska	Maurice Simmons 1911-1912 New York
Oscar T. Taylor* 1912-1913 Pennsylvania	John Lewis Smith* 1913-1914 Washington D.C.	Charles F. Cramer* 1914-1915 Ohio**
Leonidas C. Dyer 1915-1916 Missouri	Daniel V. Chisholm* 1916-1917 Washington D.C.	Henry W. Busch 1917-1918 Michigan
Carl C. Van Dyke* 1918-1919 Minnesota	William Jones 1918-1919 & 1919-1920 New York	John K. Witherspoon 1920-1921 Washington-Alaska
Oscar E. Carlstrom 1921-1922 Illinois	Antonio P. Entenza* 1922-1923 Michigan	Albert D. Alcorn* 1923-1924 Ohio
Chauncey W. Herrick 1924-1925 New York	Carmi A.Thompson* 1925-1926 Ohio	Rice W. Means 1926-1927 Colorado & Wyoming
John J. Garrity 1927-1928 Illinois	William L. Grayson 1928-1929 Georgia	Fred W. Green 1929 Michigan
Edward S. Matthias 1930-1931 Ohio	George R. Lunn 1931-1932 New York	William J. Otgen* 1932-1933 Oklahoma
William H. Armstrong 1933-1934 Wisconsin	Leon McCord 1934-1935 Alabama	Robert S. Cain 1935-1936 Pennsylvania
Scott Leavitt 1936-1937 Montana	Alfred J. Kennedy 1937-1938 New York	Thomas W. Payne 1938-1939 Michigan
George A. Eberly 1939-1940 Nebraska	Rufus E. Foster* 1940 -1941 Louisiana	Joe R. Hanley* 1941-1942 New York
Cornelius S. Kelly 1942-1943 Illinois	Guy A. Boyle* 1943-1944 Indiana	R. Morgan Galbreth* 1944-1945 California
Halsey B. Leavitt* 1945-1946 North Carolina	John White 1946-1947 Texas	Horace M. Havner 1947-1948 Iowa
Charles R. Barefoot* 1948-1949 Ohio	Henry L. Hunt* 1949-1950 Connecticut	Harry E. Williamsr* 1950-1951 Oregon
Charles William Bernhardt* 1951-1952 Georgia	Dan. S. Hewitt 1952-1953 California	John U. Shroyerr* 1953-1954 Pennsylvania
Lloyd Thurston 1954-1955 Iowa	James H. Johnston 1955-1956 New Hampshire	William D. Rogers 1956-1957 Kentucky
Orris E. Jackson 1957-1958 California	Thomas H. Hammond 1958-1959 Rhode Island	W. Ross Duke* 1959-1960 Texas
Samuel C. Hutchinson 1960 Virginia	Charles E.M. Howard 1960-1961 Florida	Homer Dwiggins 1961-1962 South Dakota
Morris G. Oesterreich 1962-1963 Wisconsin	Archie J. House 1963-1964 Michigan	Sam Black 1964-1965 Illinois
Harry H. Hoover* 1965-1966 Minnesota	Clay Everhard 1966-1967 Texas	Fred D. Shadell* 1967-1968 New Jersey
William R. Fletcher* 1968-1969 Washington	Edmund L. Wescott* 1969-1970 Wisconsin	Joseph J. McNamara* 1970-1971 Massachusetts
George A. Critchett* 1971-1972 California	Elmer G. Thomas* 1972-1973 Utah	Earl F. McCullough* 1973-1974 Indiana
Charles A. Focht* 1974-1975 Pennsylvania	Cleo G. Brown* 1975-1976 1980-1981 Indiana	Frederick J. Meyer* 1976-1977 New York
Charles A. Bunel* 1977-1978 Connecticut	Samuel Leroy Mendel* 1978-1979 - 1982-1988 Illinois	Edwin L. Bernard 1979 Louisiana**
Herman Miller 1979-1980 California**	Harry B. Embree* 1981-1982	Nathan Edward Cook 1988-1992 Arizona

Index of Elected Commander-in-Chiefs (1904-1989)

Pvt. Samuel Leroy Mendel (1884-1988)

Nathan E. Cook (1885-1992) - Last Commander & Member of United Spanish American War Veterans

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