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In 2019, the American Legion's National Convention voted to replace the word "wife" with "spouse" in the organization's constitution and bylaws section regarding eligibility to be a member of the American Legion Auxiliary; since then, male and female spouses of U.S. veterans have been eligible. Previously, only female spouses of U.S. veterans were.
The first post of the Legion, General John Joseph Pershing Post Number 1 in Washington, DC, was organized on March 7, 1919, and obtained the first charter issued to any Legion post on May 19, 1919. The St. Louis caucus that year decided that Legion posts should not be named after living persons, and the first post changed its name to George ...
Also, the Samsung American Legion Scholarship, which can only be applied for by Boys/Girls State attenders, is an endowed scholarship fund of $5 million administered by the American Legion. In 2010, ten $20,000 scholarships and 88 $1,000 scholarships were awarded to those who completed a Boys/Girls State program. [ 10 ]
Both Bronson Post 259 and Coldwater Post 52 are looking for old members to rejoin or for younger veterans to become members. ... The average age of an American Legion member is 67 years old, with ...
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
The club of more than 1,500 members closed for about a week. Nittany Post showed up unannounced Feb. 1 and placed closed signs on the building’s front doors and canceled all activities at the ...
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.
At the fifteenth biennial convention that happened in the third week of August there were added ten thousand members from the Seamen's Gunners' League. [24] This in effect doubled the size of the organization. [24] A topic discussed at this convention was if any loyal woman from the Ladies Auxiliary could become a member of the Union. [24]