List of Grand Army of the Republic Commanders-in-Chief
Grand Army of the Republic Commanders-in Chief

List of Grand Army of the Republic Commanders-in-Chief

Section Title: Grand Army of the Republic Commanders-in Chief
Table Section Text: None

Image	Name	Term Start	Term End	Home Department	Notes

-	Benjamin F. Stephenson	1866	1866	Illinois	Founder and provisional Commander-in-Chief, April 6-November 21, 1866.

-	Stephen Augustus Hurlbut	1866	1868	Illinois

-	John Alexander Logan	1868	1871	Illinois	Issued General Order No. 11 on May 5, 1868 designating Decoration Day as May 30.

-	Ambrose Everett Burnside	1871	1873	Rhode Island

-	Charles Devens, Jr.	1873	1875	Massachusetts

-	John Frederick Hartranft	1875	1877	Pennsylvania

-	John Cleveland Robinson	1877	1879	New York

-	William Earnshaw	1879	1880	Ohio

-	Louis Wagner	1880	1881	Pennsylvania

-	George Sargent Merrill	1881	1882	Massachusetts

-	Paul Vandervoort	1882	1883	Nebraska	First enlisted man to be elected Commander-in-Chief. National Women's Relief Corps recognized as an official auxiliary to the G.A.R.

-	Robert Burns Beath	1883	1884	Pennsylvania

-	John S. Kountz	1884	1885	Ohio

-	Samuel Swinfin Burdett	1885	1886	Washington, DC

-	Lucius Fairchild	1886	1887	Wisconsin

-	John Patterson Rea	1887	1888	Minnesota

-	William Warner	1888	1889	Missouri

-	Russell Alexander Alger	1889	1890	Michigan

-	Wheelock Graves Veazey	1890	1891	Vermont	Peak membership of the GAR: 409,489.

-	John Palmer	1891	1892	New York

-	Augustus Gordon Weissert	1892	1893	Wisconsin

-	John Gregory Bishop Adams	1893	1894	Massachusetts

-	Thomas G. Lawler	1894	1895	Illinois

-	Ivan N. Walker	1895	1896	Indiana

-	Thaddeus Stevens Clarkson	1896	1897	Nebraska

-	John Peter Shindel Gobin	1897	1898	Pennsylvania

James Andrew Sexton	1898	1899	Illinois	Died in office, February 5, 1899.

William Christie Johnson	1899	1899	Ohio

-	Albert Duane Shaw	1899	1900	New York

Leo Rassieur	1900	1901	Missouri

Eliakim "Ell" Torrance	1901	1902	Minnesota

-	John Charles Black	1903	1904	Illinois

-	Wilmon Whilldin Blackmar	1904	1905	Massachusetts	Died in office, July 19, 1905.

John Rigdon King	1905	1905	Maryland

JamesRTanner.PNG	James R. Tanner	1905	1906	New York

Robert Burns Brown	1906	1907	Ohio

-	Charles Germman Burton	1907	1908	Missouri

Henry Martin Nevius	1908	1909	New Jersey

-	Samuel Rinnah Van Sant	1909	1910	Minnesota

-	John Edward Gilman	1910	1911	Massachusetts	spoke at the Manassas Peace Jubilee; on this 1911 History his photograph is in the center row at the left

Harvey Marion Trimble	1911	1912	Illinois

Alfred Bishop Beers	1912	1913	Connecticut

-	Washington Gardner	1913	1914	Michigan

David James Palmer	1914	1915	Iowa

-	Elias Riggs Monfort	1915	1916	Ohio

-	William James Patterson	1916	1917	Pennsylvania

Orlando Allen Somers	1917	1918	Indiana

Clarendon E. Adams	1918	1919	Nebraska

James David Bell	1919	1920	New York	Died in office, November 1, 1919.

Daniel Munson Hall	1920	1920	Ohio

William Alexander Ketcham	1920	1921	Indiana

Lewis Stephen Pilcher	1921	1922	New York

James William Willett	1922	1923	Iowa

Gaylord Miller Saltzgaber	1923	1924	Ohio

Louis Frederick Arensberg	1924	1925	Iowa

John Baptist Inman	1925	1926	Illinois

Francis Augustin "Frank" Walsh	1926	1927	Wisconsin

Elbridge Lafayette Hawk	1927	1928	California

John Reese	1928	1929	Nebraska

Edwin J. Foster	1929	1930	Massachusetts

James E. Jewel	1930	1931	Colorado

Samuel P. Town	1931	1932	Pennsylvania

William Parkinson Wright	1932	1933	Illinois	Died in office, June 15, 1933.

Russell C. Martin	1933	1934	California

Alfred Edwin Stacey	1934	1935	New York

Oley Nelson	1935	1936	Iowa

Carl Henry William Ruhe	1936	1937	Pennsylvania

Overton H. Mennet	1937	1938	California

Robert McKee Rownd	1938	1939	New York

John E. Andrew	1940	1940	Illinois	Died in office, June 30, 1940.

Alexander T. Anderson	1940	1940	Pennsylvania

William Washington Nixon	1940	1941	Kansas

George Alvin Gay	1941	1942	New Hampshire

John Simon Dumser	1942	1943	California

George H. Jones	1943	1944	Maine

Isaac W. Sharp	1944	1945	Indiana

Hiram R. Gale	1945	1946	Washington

John Henry Grate	1946	1947	Ohio

Robert McKee Rownd	1947	1948	New York

-	Theodore A. Penland	1948	1949	Oregon	Last Commander-in-Chief. Died in office, September 13, 1950.

Sentence(s)

George Sargent Merrill was the 10th Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, from 1881-1882.

final_sentence: George Sargent Merrill was the 10th Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, from 1881-1882.