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Member Conflict Era Branch of Service References Jimmy Carter: World War II Era: U.S. Navy [6]John Chafee: World War II Era: U.S. Marine Corps [citation needed]Francis Cherry: World War II Era
American Legion Building, Garden City, Kansas, photographed by John Margolies in 1979 American Legion Post and Masonic lodge, Paso Robles, California, 1977 American Legion, San Antonio, Texas, 1982 As the new veterans returned home, membership soared to 3.3 million in 1946, triple the prewar number.
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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 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."
[126] [127] Its founders included Masons, Knights of Honor, members of the Royal Arcanum, the American Legion of Honor and the Order of Chosen Friends. [128] Membership was open to acceptable white persons over the age of 18, of good moral character who believed in a supreme being. All members are known as Fraters, regardless of gender. [129]
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