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 About
 Mississippi River Commission (MRC)
 Past MRC Members
 
 Past MRC Members Bvt. BG Cyrus B. Comstock
   U.S. Army
   1879-1895Benjamin Harrison (Indiana)
   Civilian
   1879-1881James B. Eads (Missouri)
   Civilian Engineer
   1879-1883Henry Mitchell
   U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey
   1879-1888Bvt. MG Quincy A. Gillmore
   U.S. Army
   1879-1888Bvt. BG Charles R. Suter
   U.S. Army
   1879-1896Benjamin M. Harrod (Louisiana)
   Civilian Engineer
   1879-1904Robert S. Taylor (Indiana)
   Civilian
   1881-1914Samuel W. Ferguson (Mississippi)
   Civilian Engineer
   1883-1890George Davidson
   U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey
   1888-1890Lt. Col. Oswald H. Ernst
   U.S. Army
   1888-1894Henry L. Whiting
   U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey
   1890-1897Henry Flad (Missouri)
   Civil Engineer
   1890-1898Lt. Col. Amos Stickney
   U.S. Army
   1894-1901MAJ Thomas Handbury
   U.S. Army
   1896-1902Henry L. Marindin
   U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey
   1897-1904John A. Ockerson (Missouri)
   Civilian Engineer
   1898-1924Lt. Col. Henry M. Adams
   U.S. Army
   1901-1904MAJ Thomas Casey
   U.S. Army
   1902-1906Lt. Col. Clinton B. Sears
   U.S. Army
   1904-1906Henry B. Richardson (Louisiana)
   Civilian Engineer
   1904-1909Homer P. Ritter
   U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey
   1904-1919Lt. Col. James L. Lusk
   U.S. Army
   1906-1906Col. William T. Rossell
   U.S. Army
   1906-1913Colonel William T. Rossell, Member, MRC, 1906-1913Col. James G. Warren
   U.S. Army
   1906-1919Charles H. West (Mississippi)
   Civilian Engineer
   1910-1933Col. Curtis McDonald Townsend
   U.S. Army
   1911-1920Col. Lansing H. Beach
   U.S. Army
   1913-1920Edward A. Glenn (Missouri)
   Civilian
   1914-1923Robert L. Faris
   U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey
   1919-1932Col. Mason M. Patrick
   U.S. Army
   1919-1920Col. Harry Burgess
   U.S. Army
   1920-1922Colonel Harry Burgess, Member, MRC, 1920-1922.Col. Herbert Deakyne
   U.S. Army
   1920-1920Lt. Col. Gustave R. Lukesh
   U.S. Army
   1921-1925Col. George M. Hoffman
   U.S. Army
   1922-1927Jerome O. Christie (Illinois)
   Civilian
   1923-1926Edward Flad (Missouri)
   Civilian Engineer
   1924-1950Col. Charles W. Kutz
   U.S. Army
   1925-1928John W. Stipes (Illinois)
   Civilian
   1926-1930Col. Edward H. Schulz
   U.S. Army
   1927-1929Col. Ernest Graves (retired)
   U.S. Army
   1928-1953Lt. Col. Jarvis J. Bain
   U.S. Army
   1929-1930Lawrence A. Glenn (Illinois)
   Civilian
   1930-1933Col. George R. Spalding
   U.S. Army
   1930-1935RADM Leo O. Colbert
   U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey
   1933-1956Col. Francis B. Wilby
   U.S. Army
   1935-1938Members of the MRC onboard the steamer Mississippi in Memphis during the May 1947 high-water inspection trip.  The members from left to right are:  Colonel Ernest Graves, retired; Albert L. Culbertson; Colonel Clark Kittrell; Edward Flad; Harry N. Pharr; and Major General Robert W. Crawford, President.Harry N. Pharr (Arkansas)
   Civilian Engineer
   1935-1947Albert L. Culbertson (Illinois)
   Civilian
   1935-1954Col. Roger G. Powell
   U.S. Army
   1938-1941Col. Malcolm Elliott
   U.S. Army
   1941-1946Col. Clark Kittrell
   U.S. Army
   1946-1950DeWitt L. Pyburn (Louisiana)
   Civilian Engineer
   1948-1968BG Don G. Shingler
   U.S. Army
   1950-1952Eugene F. Salisbury (Missouri)
   Civilian Engineer
   1950-1965BG Herbert D. Vogel
   U.S. Army
   1952-1954BG Charles G. Holle
   U.S. Army
   1954-1955Egbert A. Smith (Illinois)
   Civilian
   1954-1956BG William E. Potter
   U.S. Army
   1954-1956Col. John L. Person
   U.S. Army
   1955-1956BG Paul D. Berrigan
   U.S. Army
   1956-1957BG Lyle E. Seeman
   U.S. Army
   1956-1958Harry L. Bolen (Illinois)
   Civilian
   1956-1961Mr. Tom Gibson of Friars Point, Miss., (standing) addresses the Members of the Mississippi River Commission during a public hearing aboard the steamer Mississippi in May 1954.  Sitting from left to right are:  Brigadier General Herbert D. Vogel; Rear Admiral Leo O. Colbert; Brigadier General John R. Hardin, President; Albert L. Culbertson; and Eugene F. Salisbury.The members of the Mississippi River Commission in 1966.  From left to right are:  Maj. Gen. George H. Walker; Harold T. Council; Dewitt Pybum; Maj. Gen. Ellsworth I. Davis, President; Colonel Joe Clema (stanting), Secretary; Vice Admiral H. Arnold Karo; Brigadier General Walter P. Leber; and Dr. Frederick H. Kellogg.RADM H. Arnold Karo (retired)
   U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey
   1956-1966MG Gerald E. Galloway
   U.S. Army
   1958-1958MG Keith R. Barney
   U.S. Army
   1958-1960BG William W. Lapsley
   U.S. Army
   1958-1961BG William R. Shuler
   U.S. Army
   1960-1962BG Jackson Graham
   U.S. Army
   1961-1963Harold T. Council (Mississippi)
   Civilian
   1961-1977BG Carroll H. Dunn
   U.S. Army
   1962-1964BG Robert F. Seedlock
   U.S. Army
   1963-1963BG Walter P. Leber
   U.S. Army
   1963-1967MG George H. Walker
   U.S. Army
   1964-1967Dr. Frederick H. Kellog (TN)
   Civilian Engineer
   1965-1974RADM James C. Tison (retired)
   U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey
   1967-1968BG William T. Bradley
   U.S. Army
   1967-1968MG Willard Roper
   U.S. Army
   1967-1974BG C. Craig Cannon
   U.S. Army
   1968-1969MG Clarence C. Haug
   U.S. Army
   1968-1969Roy T. Sessums (Louisiana)
   Civilian Engineer
   1968-1984RADM Don A. Jones
   National Oceanic Survey
   1968-1972MG Harold R. Parfit
   U.S. Army
   1970-1975RADM Adam L. Powell
   National Oceanic Survey
   1972-1979BG Wayne S. Nichols
   U.S. Army
   1974-1975W. Richard Hall (Tennessee)
   Civilian Engineer
   1974-1979BG Charles I. McGinnis
   U.S. Army
   1975-1977MG Elvin R. Heiberg, III
   U.S. Army
   1976-1979BG William R. Read
   U.S. Army
   1977-1979James W. Yancy (Arkansas)
   Civilian
   1978-1979MG Richard L. Harris
   U.S. Army
   1979-1980MG Louis W. Prentiss, Jr.
   U.S. Army
   1979-1981The members of the Mississippi River Commission onboard the motor vessel Mississippi in 1984.  From left to right are:  Rear Adm. John D. Bossier; Brigadier Gen. Richard S. Kem; Sam E. Angel; Maj. Gen. William E. Read, President; R. D. James; Brigadier Gen. Jerone B. Hilmes; and Colonel Yore, Secretary.Sam E. Angel (Arkansas)
   Civilian
   1979-2019R.D. James (Missouri)
   Civilian Engineer
   1981-2018MG Hugh Robinson
   U.S. Army
   1981-1983BG Richard S. Kem
   U.S. Army
   1981-1985RADM Herbert R. Lippold
   National Oceanic Survey
   1982-1983BG Jerome B. Hilmes
   U.S. Army
   1983-1988RADM John D. Bossler
   Nat. Oceanic & Atmosph. Adm.
   1984-1986BG Robert J. Dacey
   U.S. Army
   1985-1987Frank H. Walk (Louisiana)
   Civilian Engineer
   1987-1998BG Charles E. Edgar
   U.S. Army
   1987-1990RADM Wesley V. Hull
   Nat. Oceanic & Atmosph. Adm.
   1988-1990BG Gerald E. Galloway, Jr.
   U.S. Army
   1988-1995BG Paul Y. Chinen
   U.S. Army
   1990-1992RADM J. Austin Yeager
   Nat. Oceanic & Atmosph. Adm.
   1991-1995BG Albert J. Genetti, Jr.
   U.S. Army
   1992-1997RADM John C. Albright
   Nat. Oceanic & Atmosph. Adm.
   1995-1999BG Hans Van Winkle
   U.S. Army
   1997-1999William Clifford Smith (LA)
   Civilian Engineer
   1998-2012BG Robert Griffin
   U.S. Army
   1998-2001RADM Nicholas A. Prahl
   Nat. Oceanic & Atmosph. Adm.
   1999-2004BG Carl A. Strock
   U.S. Army
   1998-2001BG Steven R. Hawkins
   U.S. Army
   2001-2005BG David Fastabend
   U.S. Army
   2001-2003BG William T. Grisoli
   U.S. Army
   2003-2005RADM Samuel P. De Bow, JR
   Nat. Oceanic & Atmosph. Adm.
   2004-2007BG Bruce A. Berwick
   U.S. Army
   2005-2008BG Gregg F. Martin
   U.S. Army
   2005-2008RADM Jonathan W. Bailey
   Nat. Oceanic & Atmosph. Adm
   2007-2012BG William E. Rapp
   U.S. Army
   2008-2009MG John W. Peabody
   U.S. Army
   2008-2011BG John R.McMahon
   U.S. Army
   2009-2012BG Margaret Burcham
   U.S. Army
   2011-2014RDML Gerd Glang
   Nat. Oceanic & Atmosph. Adm.
   2012-2016BG Anthony Funkhouser
   U.S. Army
   2012-2013Norma Jean Mattei
   Civilian Engineer
   2012-BG John S. Kem
   U.S. Army
   2013-2015BG Richard G. Kaiser
   U.S. Army
   2014-2016BG David C. Hill
   U.S. Army
   2015-2017MG R. Mark Toy
   U.S. Army
   2016-2020RDML Shepard Smith
   Nat. Oceanic & Atmosph. Adm.
   2016-BG Paul E. Owen
   U.S. Army
   2017-2019James A. Reeder
   Civilian Engineer
   2018-BG Peter Helmlinger
   U.S. Army
   2020-MG Robert Whittle
   U.S. Army
   2020-Albert Riley James
   Civilian
   2020-* *Nominee*
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