Governors General of the Order 1896-2024

1896-1898 Major General Frederick Dent Grant
1898-1900 Brigadier General Stewart Lyndon Woodford
1900-1902 Honorable William Winton Goodrich
1902-1904 Brigadier General Ralph Earl Prime
1904-1906 Admiral George Dewey
1906-1906 Honorable Robert Barnwell Roosevelt*
1906-1908 Admiral George Dewey
1908-1910 General Rollin Simmons Woodruff
1910-1912 Major General Frederick Dent Grant
1912-1914 Reverend Dr. Charles Wadsworth, Jr.
1914-1916 Colonel William Cary Sanger
1916-1916 Honorable Isaac Watts Brooks**
1916-1917 Colonel William Cary Sanger
1917-1919 Colonel William Libbey
1919-1921 Professor Herman Vandenburg Ames
1921-1923 Honorable Dennis Albert Ames
1923-1925 Henry Saydem Kissam
1925-1927 John Lenord Merrill
1929-1931 Professor Arthur Adams
1931-1933 Lieutenant Colonel John Bion Richards
1933-1935 Major General Ulysses Simpson Grant, III
1935-1937 Colonel Louis Annin Ames
1937-1938 William Crumby Claghorn
1938-1939 Honorable Addison Pierce Munroe
1939-1940 Lieutenant Colonel William Alexander Newman Dorland
1940-1941 Lanning Glenn Lytle Sayre
1941-1942 John Van Buren Wicoff
1942-1945 Ormond Rambo, Jr.
1945-1948 Honorable Charles Spencer Bissell
1948-1951 Milo Frederick McAlpin
1951-1954 Professor Arthur Adams
1954-1957 Major General Ulysses Simpson Grant, III

1957-1960 Schyler Adams Orvis
1960-1963 Ralph Clymer Hawkins
1963-1966 Walter Howard Kitchel
1966-1968 Edward Martin Hall
1968-1969 Grahame Thomas Smallwood, Jr.
1969-1969 Dr. Harold Eugene Mayo*
1969-1972 Grahame Thomas Smallwood, Jr.
1972-1978 Asa E. Phillips, Jr.
1978-1981 Dr. H. Carroll Parish
1981-1984 Dr. Roswell Levi Atwood
1984-1986 Burk Oliver Barker
1986-1988 Lieutenant General Herman Nickerson, Jr.
1988-1990 Lieutenant General John MacNair Wright, Jr.
1990-1992 Granville Warren Wehland
1992-1994 Lyttleton Tazwell Harris, IV
1994-1995 Stanley Warner Eno, Jr.*
1995-1996 Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Pelham Curtis, II
1996-1998 Benjamin Louis Harris
1998-2000 Joseph Austin Kilbourn
2000-2004 Alden Atwood
2004-2006 Robert Pond Vivian
2006-2008 John Michael Phelps
2008-2010 John MacIntosh Bourne
2010-2012 Dr. Thomas Mikell Leland
2012-2014 William Charles Hampton
2014-2016 Colonel Charles Clement Lucas, Jr., MD
2016-2018 Dr. Daniel Churchman Warren, MD
2018-2020 Lieutenant Commander Richard Morgan Wright, Jr.
2020-2022 William Allerton, III
2022-2024 Edward Charles Horton
2024-2026 Thomas Allen Smart