Commandants
Commandants
Present Commandant General James L. Jones
Name From Years Commandant Samual Nicholas Pennsylvania 1775-1781 William Ward Burrows South Carolina 1798-1804 Franklin Wharton Pennsylvania 1804-1818 Anthony Gale Ireland 1819-1820 Archibald Henderson Virginia 1820-1859 John Harris Pennsylvania 1859-1864 Jacob Zeilin Pennsylvania 1864-1876 Charles G. McCawley Pennsylvania 1876-1891 Charles Haywood Maine 1891-1903 George Elliot Alabama 1903-1910 William P. Biddle Wisconsin 1911-1914 George Barnett Wisconsin 1914-1920 John A. Lejeune Louisiana 1920-1929 Wendell Neville Virginia 1929-1930 Ben H. Fuller Michigan 1930-1934 John H. Russell California 1934-1936 Thomas Holcomb Delaware 1936-1943 Alexander A. Vandegrift Virginia 1944-1947 Clifton B. Gates Tennessee 1948-1951 Lemuel C. Sheperd, Jr. Virginia 1952-1955 Randolph McCall Pate South Carolina 1956-1959 David M. Shoup Indiana 1960-1963 Wallace M. Greene, Jr. Vermont 1964-1967 Leonard F. Chapman, Jr. Florida 1968-1971 Robert E. Cushman, Jr. Minnesota 1972-1975 Louis H. Wilson Mississippi 1975-1979 Robert H. Barrow Louisiana 1979-1983 Paul X. Kelley Massachusetts 1983-1987 Alfred M. Gray, Jr. New Jersey 1987-1991 Carl E. Mundy Georgia 1991-1995 Charles C. Krulak Virginia 1995-1999 James L. Jones Missouri 1999 - 2003 Michael W. Hagee 2003 - Present