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Member Conflict Era Branch of Service References Orval Faubus: World War II Era: U.S. Army [citation needed]Mark Ferguson III: Gulf War Era: U.S. Navy [15]Hamilton Fish, Jr. World War I Era
The Paris Caucus. The American Legion was established in Paris, France, on March 15 to 17, 1919, by a thousand commissioned officers and enlisted men, delegates from all the units of the American Expeditionary Forces to an organization caucus meeting, which adopted a tentative constitution and selected the name "American Legion".
The Forty and Eight was founded in March, 1920, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when World War I veteran Joseph Breen and 15 other members of The American Legion came together and organized it as an honor society for the Legion. They envisioned a new and different level of elite membership and camaraderie for leaders of the Legion.
The average age of an American Legion member is 67 years old, with 400,000 members over the age of 80. Don Marks, Commander of the Bronson post, said of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, "We have so ...
The Sons of The American Legion was created in 1932 as an organized program within The American Legion. It has members whose parents or grandparents served in the United States military and became ...
James Kellogg, a member of American Legion Post 146 in Adams, is one of five national vice commanders elected this year by American Legion delegates from around the world.
Pages in category "American Legion" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. ... List of members of the American Legion; Missouri Boys State;
All male descendants, adopted sons and stepsons of members of The American Legion, and such male descendants of veterans who died in service during World War I or since December 7, 1941, during the delimiting periods set forth in Article IV, Section 1, of the National Constitution of The American Legion or who died subsequent to their honorable ...