Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States
The Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (MOLLUS), or, simply, the Loyal Legion, is a United States military order organized on April 15, 1865, by three veteran officers of the Union Army. The original membership was composed of commissioned officers of the Regular or Volunteer Army, U.S. Navy, or U.S. Marine Corps who served during the American Civil War, or who had served and thereafter been commissioned and who thereby "had aided in maintaining the honor, integrity, and supremacy of the national movement" during the Civil War.
Not to be confused with Legion of the United States or American Legion.Major General – First MOLLUS Commander-in-Chief, 1865–79. (Died in office.)
George Cadwalader
Major General – 1879–86. (Died in office.)
Winfield Scott Hancock
General – 1886–88. (Died in office.)
Philip H. Sheridan
Major General – 1888–93. (Died in office.)
Rutherford B. Hayes
Rear Admiral – 1893.
John J. Almy
Brigadier General – 1893–95.
Lucius Fairchild
Major General – 1895–96. (Died in office.)
John Gibbon
Rear Admiral – 1896–99.
Bancroft Gherardi
Lieutenant General – 1899–1903.
John M. Schofield
Major General – 1903–05.
David McMurtrie Gregg
Major General – 1905–07.
John R. Brooke
Major General – 1907–09.
Grenville M. Dodge
Lieutenant General – 1909–11.
John C. Bates
Rear Admiral – 1911–12. (Died in office.)
George W. Melville
Lieutenant General – 1912. (Died in office.)
Arthur MacArthur
Colonel Arnold A. Rand – 1912–13. (First non-flag officer to serve as MOLLUS commander-in-chief.)
Brevet Brigadier General – 1913–15. (Died in office.)
Thomas Hamlin Hubbard
Rear Admiral – 1915.
Louis Kempff
Lieutenant General – 1915–19.
Samuel B.M. Young
Lieutenant General – 1919–25. (Died in office.)
Nelson A. Miles
Rear Admiral Purnell F. Harrington – 1925–27.
Master , USN – 1927–30. (Died in office.)
Robert M. Thompson
Brigadier General Samuel W. Fountain – 1930. (Died in office.)
Brevet Major George Mason – 1930–31.
Captain – 1931–33. (Died in office. Last Civil War veteran to serve as MOLLUS commander-in-chief. Also was Commander in Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic from 1932 to 1933.)
William P. Wright
Colonel Hugh Means – 1933–35.
Colonel William Ennis Forbes – 1935–40. (Resigned.)
Major General – 1940–41.
Malvern Hill Barnum
Mr. James Vernor Jr. – 1941–47 (First MOLLUS commander-in-chief who did not serve in the .)
United States Armed Forces
Rear Admiral , USN – 1947–51.
Reginald R. Belknap
Donald H. Whittemore – 1951–53
Commander William C. Duval, USNR – 1953–57
Major General – 1957–61. (SUVCW Commander-in-Chief, 1953–55.)
Ulysses S. Grant III
Lieutenant Colonel Donald M. Liddell Jr., USAR – 1961–62. (Resigned.)
Lieutenant Colonel H. Durston Saylor II, USAR – 1962–64.
Major General , USMC – 1964. (Died in office. Last flag officer to serve as MOLLUS commander-in-chief.)
Clayton B. Volgel
Colonel Walter E. Hopper, USAR – 1964–67.
Lieutenant Colonel Lenahan O'Connell, USAR – 1967–71.
Colonel Brooke M. Lessig USAR – 1971–73.
Charles Allan Brady Jr. – 1973–75.
Colonel Joseph B. Daugherty – 1975–77.
Thomas N. McCarter III – 1977–81.
Lieutenant Colonel Philip M. Watrous – 1981–83.
Alexander P. Hartnett – 1983–85.
William H. Upham – 1985–89. (Last commander-in-chief to serve more than two years in office.)
1st Lieutenant Lowell V. Hammer – 1989–91. (SUVCW Commander-in-Chief, 1991–92.)
Henry N. Sawyer – 1991–93.
Colonel Scott W. Stucky, USAFR – 1993–95. (Federal judge.)
The Rev. Canon Robert G. Carroon – 1995–97.
The Hon. Michael P. Sullivan – 1997–99.
Major Robert J. Bateman – 1999–2001.
Gordon R. Bury II – 2001–03. (SUVCW Commander-in-Chief, 1986–87.)
Douglas R. Niermeyer, 2003–05.
Benjamin C. Frick, Esq. 2005–07.
Karl F. Schaeffer, 2007–09.
Keith Harrison – 2009–11. (SUVCW Commander-in-Chief, 1994–95.)
Jeffry C. Burden, Esq. – 2011–13.
Waldron K. Post II – 2013–15.
Captain James A. Simmons, USAF – 2015–17.
Colonel Eric A. Rojo, USA – 2017–19.