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The order issued certificates of $1,000, $2,000 or $3,000 each, at their option, and those certificates carried a "graduate weekly benefit." [6] The Legion reached its largest membership at the end of 1889 with 62,457. Like many fraternal organizations, the Legion ran into financial difficulties in 1895 and 1896.
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 American Legion Department of Washington is a nonprofit veterans’ organization that offers a variety of services to veterans and their families across the state, as well as youth programming ...
The American Legion membership is 1.3 million members nationally now. There were 3.12 million members in 2000. Nationally, officers admitted, "It lacks younger members to carry on our legacy."
Joseph Graham "Gray" Davis Jr. (born December 26, 1942) is an American attorney and former politician who served as the 37th governor of California from 1999 until he was recalled and removed from office in 2003. He is the second state governor in U.S. history to have been recalled, after Lynn Frazier of North Dakota.
American Ex-Prisoners of War; American G.I. Forum; American Legion; AMVETS; American Veterans Committee (dissolved 2008) American Veterans Committee (2013–present day) American Veterans for Equal Rights; Army and Navy Union; Association of the United States Army; Aztec Club (organized by officers of the Mexican War) Blinded Veterans ...
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