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President Joe Biden, then a United States Senator, was awarded a Gold Good Citizenship Medal by The Delaware Society of the Sons of the American Revolution in 1999. [ 6 ] Of the 22 presidents who served prior to the founding of the SAR, six qualify as patriot ancestors – George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James ...
The Sons of the American Revolution (SAR), formally the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (NSSAR), is a federally chartered patriotic organization.The National Society, a nonprofit corporation headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, [8] was formed in New York City on April 30, 1889. [9]
The Sons of the Revolution (SR), formally the General Society of the Sons of the Revolution (GSSR), is a patriotic organization headquartered at Williamsburg, Virginia. A nonprofit corporation, the Sons of the Revolution was founded by John Austin Stevens on February 22, 1876, at New York City. The organization is governed by a board of ...
Pages in category "Members of the Sons of the American Revolution" The following 161 pages are in this category, out of 161 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Lockwood died on November 9, 1922, in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and was the last surviving founder of the Daughters of the American Revolution, as well as the only founder buried in Washington, D.C. [2] [6] Her work in founding the Daughters of the American Revolution is mentioned in Women and Patriotism in Jim Crow America (2005), by Francesca ...
At this convention, he founded the Sons of the American Revolution on April 30, 1889, to represent his vision of a broader based society. McDowell was elected president of the new organization the same day. Although efforts were made the reconcile the two organizations, they ultimately were unable to accommodate each other's demands.
The Founders of the Daughters of the American Revolution honors Desha and the other co-founders of the DAR. The first official meeting of the first chapter (branch) of the Daughters of the American Revolution began at 2 p.m. on October 11, 1890, in Strathmore Arms, the residence of Mary Smith Lockwood, one of the four co-founders. [3]
Helen Matilda Tufts was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1874. Her father was a Unitarian minister and her mother was a suffragist. [1] In 1875, the family moved to Massachusetts, where Helen graduated from Cotting High School in Lexington in 1892. [2]