List of members of the American Legion

This page contains a list of notable members of The American Legion.

A

	Conflict Era	Branch of Service
Sherman Adams	World War I Era	U.S. Marine Corps
Spiro Agnew	World War II Era	U.S. Army
Harold Arthur	World War II Era	U.S. Army

B

	Conflict Era	Branch of Service
Perry Belmont	World War I Era	U.S. Army
Humphrey Bogart	World War I Era	U.S. Navy
Hale Boggs	World War II Era	U.S. Navy
John Breckinridge	World War II Era	U.S. Army
Maurice Britt	World War II Era	U.S. Army
Harold Burton	World War I Era	U.S. Army
George Bush	World War II Era	U.S. Navy
George Bush	Vietnam War Era	U.S. Air Force
Prescott Bush	World War I Era	U.S. Army
Richard Byrd	World War I Era	U.S. Navy

C

	Conflict Era	Branch of Service	References
Jimmy Carter	World War II Era	U.S. Navy
John Chafee	World War II Era	U.S. Marine Corps
Francis Cherry	World War II Era	U.S. Navy
Bennett Clark	World War I Era	U.S. Army	[1]
Max Cleland	Vietnam War Era	U.S. Army
Tom Cotton	War on Terrorism Era	U.S. Army	[2]

D

	Conflict Era	Branch of Service	References
Tom Daschle	Vietnam War Era	U.S. Air Force
Charles Dawes	World War I Era	U.S. Army
Everett Dirksen	World War I Era	U.S. Army
Bob Dole	World War II Era	U.S. Army	[3]
William Donovan	World War I Era	U.S. Army	[4]

E

Member		Conflict Era	Branch of Service	References
	Dwight Eisenhower	World War I Era	U.S. Army
	Sam Ervin	World War I Era	U.S. Army

F

	Conflict Era	Branch of Service	References
Orval Faubus	World War II Era	U.S. Army
Mark Ferguson III	Gulf War Era	U.S. Navy	[5]
Hamilton Fish, Jr.	World War I Era	U.S. Army	[1]
Hamilton Fish IV	World War II Era	U.S. Navy
Gerald Ford	World War II Era	U.S. Navy	[6]

G

	Conflict Era	Branch of Service	References
Clark Gable	World War II Era	U.S. Army Air Forces
William Gardiner	World War I Era	U.S. Army
John Gleason, Jr.	World War II Era	U.S. Army
Albert Gore, Jr.	Vietnam War Era	U.S. Army
John Greenway	World War I Era	U.S. Army	[7]
Warren Grimm	World War I Era	U.S. Army

H

	Conflict Era	Branch of Service
Luther Hodges	World War I Era	U.S. Army
John Hoeppel	World War I Era	U.S. Army
Ernest Hollings	World War II Era	U.S. Army

I

Member		Conflict Era	Branch of Service	References
	Vincent Impellitteri	World War I Era	U.S. Navy

J

	Conflict Era	Branch of Service	References
Joseph Johnson	World War I Era	U.S. Army
Louis Johnson	World War I Era	U.S. Army	[8]
Lyndon Johnson	World War II Era	U.S. Navy
Royal Johnson	World War I Era	U.S. Army	[9]

K

Member		Conflict Era	Branch of Service	References
	John Kennedy	World War II Era	U.S. Navy
	Frank Knox	World War I Era	U.S. Army	[10]

L

	Conflict Era	Branch of Service	References
Luke Lea	World War I Era	U.S. Army	[4]
Henry Lindsley	World War I Era	U.S. Army	[4]
John Lodge	World War II Era	U.S. Navy

M

	Conflict Era	Branch of Service	References
Charles Mabey	World War I Era	U.S. Navy
Douglas MacArthur	World War I Era	U.S. Army
Edward Martin	World War I Era	U.S. Army
John McCloy	World War I Era	U.S. Navy
Stewart McKinney	Korean War Era	U.S. Air Force
Sid McMath	World War II Era	U.S. Marine Corps
Thomas Miller	World War I Era	U.S. Army	[11]
Billy Mitchell	World War I Era	U.S. Army

N

Member		Conflict Era	Branch of Service	References
	Richard Nixon	World War II Era	U.S. Navy

O

Member		Conflict Era	Branch of Service	References
	William St. Onge	World War II Era	U.S. Army Air Forces

P

	Conflict Era	Branch of Service	References
George Patton, Jr.	World War I Era	U.S. Army
Claude Pepper	World War I Era	U.S. Army
Mike Pompeo	Gulf War Era	U.S. Army	[12]
Mortimer Proctor	World War I Era	U.S. Army

R

	Conflict Era	Branch of Service	References
Ronald Reagan	World War II Era	U.S. Army Air Forces
Stanley Reed	World War I Era	U.S. Army
Eddie Rickenbacker	World War I Era	U.S. Army
Mickey Rooney	World War II Era	U.S. Army
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.	World War I Era	U.S. Army	[1]
Richard Russell, Jr.	World War I Era	U.S. Navy

S

	Conflict Era	Branch of Service
Fernand St. Germain	Korean War Era	U.S. Army
Leverett Saltonstall	World War I Era	U.S. Army
John Schmitz	Korean War Era	U.S. Marine Corps
Robert Stafford	World War II Era	U.S. Navy
John Stelle	World War I Era	U.S. Army

T

	Conflict Era	Branch of Service	References
Herman Talmadge	World War II Era	U.S. Navy
John Tower	World War II Era	U.S. Navy
Harry Truman	World War I Era	U.S. Army	[13]
Roscoe Turner	World War I Era	U.S. Army	[14]

U

Member		Conflict Era	Branch of Service	References
	Morris Udall	World War II Era	U.S. Army Air Forces

V

Member		Conflict Era	Branch of Service	References
	Dick Van Dyke	World War II Era	U.S. Army Air Forces	[15]

W

	Conflict Era	Branch of Service	References
John Warner	World War II Era	U.S. Navy	[7]
George White	World War I Era	U.S. Army	[16]
Richard Wigglesworth	World War I Era	U.S. Army
Larry Wilcox	Vietnam War Era	U.S. Marine Corps	[7]
Hosea Williams	World War II Era	U.S. Army
Samuel Woodfill	World War I Era	U.S. Army

Y

Member		Conflict Era	Branch of Service	References
	Alvin York	World War I Era	U.S. Army	[4][17]

Z

Member		Conflict Era	Branch of Service	References
	Orville Zimmerman	World War I Era	U.S. Army	[18]

References

Wheat, George Seay (1919). "The Story of the American Legion". The Birth of the Legion. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. p. 258. LCCN 19012694. OL 7238700M – via Internet Archive.
Turnage, Clara (January 13, 2019). "New Legion scholarship honors Arkansas couple". Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Retrieved September 29, 2020.
"Sen. Robert J. Dole". The American Legion. Retrieved September 29, 2020.
Wheat, George Seay (1919). "The Story of the American Legion". The Birth of the Legion. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. p. 207. LCCN 19012694. OL 7238700M – via Internet Archive.
"Paris Post 1 gets high-ranking new member". The American Legion. Indianapolis, Ind.: The American Legion. June 10, 2015. Retrieved October 23, 2019.
Ford, Gerald R. (1979). A Time To Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford. New York: Harper & Row. p. 62. ISBN 0-06-011297-2. OCLC 4835213.
Rumer, Thomas A. (1990). The American Legion: An Official History, 1919-1989. New York: M. Evans. ISBN 0-87131-622-6. LCCN 90013822. OCLC 22207881. OL 1860441M.
McFarland, Keith D. & Roll, David L. (2005). Louis Johnson and the Arming of America: The Roosevelt and Truman Years. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. pp. 24–26. ISBN 978-0-253-34626-1. OCLC 1023102538. OL 22709936M.
Wheat, George Seay (1919). "The Story of the American Legion". The Birth of the Legion. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. p. 40. LCCN 19012694. OL 7238700M – via Internet Archive.
Wheat, George Seay (1919). "The Story of the American Legion". The Birth of the Legion. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. p. 260. LCCN 19012694. OL 7238700M – via Internet Archive.
Rumer, Thomas A. (1990). The American Legion: An Official History, 1919-1989. New York: M. Evans. p. 559. ISBN 0-87131-622-6. LCCN 90013822. OCLC 22207881. OL 1860441M.
Wolf, Mackenzie (November 2019). "'A Duty to Lead': Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on America's role and responsibilities in a dangerous world". The American Legion Magazine. Vol. 187 no. 5. Indianapolis, Ind.: The American Legion. p. 44. ISSN 0886-1234.
Rumer, Thomas A. (1990). The American Legion: An Official History, 1919-1989. New York: M. Evans. p. 256. ISBN 0-87131-622-6. LCCN 90013822. OCLC 22207881. OL 1860441M.
Rumer, Thomas A. (1990). The American Legion: An Official History, 1919-1989. New York: M. Evans. pp. 402-403. ISBN 0-87131-622-6. LCCN 90013822. OCLC 22207881. OL 1860441M.
Brooks, Steve B. (August 2015). "Cliffside Malibu supports Legion TBI-PTSD symposium" (PDF). Veterans Health. The American Legion Magazine. Vol. 179 no. 2. Indianapolis, Ind.: The American Legion. p. 64. ISSN 0886-1234.
Wheat, George Seay (1919). "The Story of the American Legion". The Birth of the Legion. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. p. 8. LCCN 19012694. OL 7238700M – via Internet Archive.
York, Alvin C. (1930). Skeyhill, Tom (ed.). His Own Life Story And War Diary. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company. pp. 290–291.
United States. Congress House. (1950). Memorial Services Held in the House of Representatives of the United States, Together With Remarks Presented in Eulogy of Orville Zimmerman, Late a Representative from Missouri: Eightieth Congress, Second Session. Washington: United States Government Printing Office. p. 47. OCLC 1048810223 – via Internet Archive.

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[wheat1919p258-1] Wheat, George Seay (1919). "The Story of the American Legion". The Birth of the Legion. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. p. 258. LCCN 19012694. OL 7238700M – via Internet Archive.

[2] Turnage, Clara (January 13, 2019). "New Legion scholarship honors Arkansas couple". Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Retrieved September 29, 2020.

[3] "Sen. Robert J. Dole". The American Legion. Retrieved September 29, 2020.

[wheat1919p207-4] Wheat, George Seay (1919). "The Story of the American Legion". The Birth of the Legion. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. p. 207. LCCN 19012694. OL 7238700M – via Internet Archive.

[5] "Paris Post 1 gets high-ranking new member". The American Legion. Indianapolis, Ind.: The American Legion. June 10, 2015. Retrieved October 23, 2019.

[6] Ford, Gerald R. (1979). A Time To Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford. New York: Harper & Row. p. 62. ISBN 0-06-011297-2. OCLC 4835213.

[rumer1990-7] Rumer, Thomas A. (1990). The American Legion: An Official History, 1919-1989. New York: M. Evans. ISBN 0-87131-622-6. LCCN 90013822. OCLC 22207881. OL 1860441M.

[8] McFarland, Keith D. & Roll, David L. (2005). Louis Johnson and the Arming of America: The Roosevelt and Truman Years. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. pp. 24–26. ISBN 978-0-253-34626-1. OCLC 1023102538. OL 22709936M.

[9] Wheat, George Seay (1919). "The Story of the American Legion". The Birth of the Legion. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. p. 40. LCCN 19012694. OL 7238700M – via Internet Archive.

[10] Wheat, George Seay (1919). "The Story of the American Legion". The Birth of the Legion. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. p. 260. LCCN 19012694. OL 7238700M – via Internet Archive.

[11] Rumer, Thomas A. (1990). The American Legion: An Official History, 1919-1989. New York: M. Evans. p. 559. ISBN 0-87131-622-6. LCCN 90013822. OCLC 22207881. OL 1860441M.

[12] Wolf, Mackenzie (November 2019). "'A Duty to Lead': Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on America's role and responsibilities in a dangerous world". The American Legion Magazine. Vol. 187 no. 5. Indianapolis, Ind.: The American Legion. p. 44. ISSN 0886-1234.

[13] Rumer, Thomas A. (1990). The American Legion: An Official History, 1919-1989. New York: M. Evans. p. 256. ISBN 0-87131-622-6. LCCN 90013822. OCLC 22207881. OL 1860441M.

[14] Rumer, Thomas A. (1990). The American Legion: An Official History, 1919-1989. New York: M. Evans. pp. 402-403. ISBN 0-87131-622-6. LCCN 90013822. OCLC 22207881. OL 1860441M.

[15] Brooks, Steve B. (August 2015). "Cliffside Malibu supports Legion TBI-PTSD symposium" (PDF). Veterans Health. The American Legion Magazine. Vol. 179 no. 2. Indianapolis, Ind.: The American Legion. p. 64. ISSN 0886-1234.

[16] Wheat, George Seay (1919). "The Story of the American Legion". The Birth of the Legion. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. p. 8. LCCN 19012694. OL 7238700M – via Internet Archive.

[17] York, Alvin C. (1930). Skeyhill, Tom (ed.). His Own Life Story And War Diary. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company. pp. 290–291.

[18] United States. Congress House. (1950). Memorial Services Held in the House of Representatives of the United States, Together With Remarks Presented in Eulogy of Orville Zimmerman, Late a Representative from Missouri: Eightieth Congress, Second Session. Washington: United States Government Printing Office. p. 47. OCLC 1048810223 – via Internet Archive.