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United States Military Academy (1802-Present) - Thomas Jefferson signed the legislation authorizing the United States Military Academy (West Point) 16 Mar 1802 and the school opened on 4 Jul 1802.

Superintendents

1801-1812: Col. Jonathan Williams (1751-1815) – In June 1803, Lieutenant Colonel Williams vacated (he did not resign) the post of Superintendent. He returned in Superintendency in April 1805.
1803-1805: Maj. William Amherst Barron (1769-1825) - Major Barron resigned his commission on 14 June 1807, just before he was brought to trial by a court martial for "for …neglect of the Military Academy…”
1805-1812: Col. Jonathan Williams (1751-1815)
1812-1814: Col. Joseph Gardner Swift (1783-1865), Class of 1802
1814-1817: Capt. Alden Partridge (1785-1854), Class of 1806
1817-1833: Col. Sylvanus Thayer (1785–1872), Class of 1808
1833-1838: Maj. Rene DeRussy (1796-1864), Class of 1812
1838-1845: Richard Delafield (1798-1873), Class of 1818
1845-1852: Henry Brewerton (1801-1879), Class of 1819
1852-1855: Gen. Robert E. Lee (1807-1870), Class of 1829
1855-1856: John Gross Barnard (1815-1882), Class of 1833
1856-1861: Richard Delafield (1798-1873), Class of 1818
Jan 23-28: 1861: Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard (1818-1893), Class of 1838
Jan 28-Mar 1, 1861: Richard Delafield (1798-1873), Class of 1818
1861-1864: Alexander Hamilton Bowman (1803-1865), Class of 1825
Jul to Sep 1864: Zealous Bates Tower (1819-1900), Class of 1841
1864-1866: George Washington Cullum (1809-1892), Class of 1833
1866-1871: Thomas Gamble Pitcher (1824-1895), Class of 1845
1871-1876: Thomas Howard Ruger (1833-1907), Class of 1854
1876-1881: Maj. Gen. John McAllister Schofield (1831-1906), Class of 1853 – Awarded the Medal of Honor at the Battle of Wilson's Creek in 1861. Later commanding general of the Army.
1881-1882: Maj. Gen. Oliver Otis Howard (1830-1909), Class of 1854
1882-1887: Maj. Gen. Wesley Merritt (1834-1910), Class of 1860
1887-1889: Col. John Grubb Parke (1827-1900), Class of 1849
1889-1893: Col. John Moulder Wilson (1837-1919), Class of 1860 - Awarded the Medal of Honor at the Battle of Malvern Hill, VA in 1862
1893-1898: Col. Oswald Hurbert Ernst (1842-1926), Class of 1864
1898-1906: Col. Albert Leopold Mills (1854-1916), Class of 1879 - Awarded the Medal of Honor as a 1st Lt. at San Juan Hill in Cuba. Appointed Superintendent to West Point by President McKinley, which carried an automatic promotion from 1st Lt. to Col.
1906-1910: Hugh Lenox Scott (1853-1934), Class of 1876
1911-1912: Thomas Henry Barry (1855-1919), Class of 1877
1913-1917: Clarence Page Townsley, 18??-1926, Class of 1881
1917-1919: Samuel Escue Tillman (1847-1942), Class of 1869
1919-1922: Brig. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Class of 1903 - Awarded the Medal of Honor in 1942 for his leadership to Philippine resistance to the Japanese invasion.
1922-1925: Brig. Gen. Fred Winchester Sladen (1863-1945), Class of 1890
1926-1928: Merch Bradt Stewart (1875-1934), Class of 1896
1928: Edwin Baruch Winans (1869-1947), Class of 1891
1929-1932: William Ruthven Smith (1868-1941), Class of 1892
1932-1938: William Durward Connor (1874-1960), Class of 1897
1938-1940: Jay Leland Benedict (1882-1953), Class Of 1904
1940-1942: Robert L. Eichelberger (1886-1961), Class of 1909
1942-1945: Francis Bowditch Wilby (1883-1965), Class of 1905
1945-1949: Gen. Maxwell Davenport Taylor, Class of 1922
1949-1951: Bryant Edward Moore (1894-1951), Class of Aug 1917
1951-1954: Maj. General Frederick Augustus Irving (1894-1995), Class of 1917
1954-1956: Blackshear Morrison Bryan (1900-1977), Class of 1922
1956-1960: Gen. Garrison Holt Davidson (1904-1992), Class of 1927
1960-1963: Gen. William Westmoreland (1914-2005), Class of 1936
1963-1966: James Benjamin Lampert (1914-1978), Class of 1936
1966-1969: Gen. Donald Vivian Bennett (1915- ), Class of 1940
1969-1970: Maj. Gen. Samuel William Koster (1919- ), Class of 1942
1970-1974: William Allen Knowlton (1920- ), Class of Jan. 1943
1974-1977: Sidney Bryan Berry (1926- ), Class of 1948
1977-1981: Lt. Gen. Andrew Jackson Goodpaster (1915-2005), Class of 1939
1981-1986: Gen. Willard Warren Scott, Jr. (1926- ), Class of 1948
1986-1991: Lt. Gen. Dave Richard Palmer (1934- ), Class of 1956
1991-1996: Lt. Gen. Howard Dwayne Graves (1939-2003), Class of 1961
1996-2001: Lt. Gen. Daniel W. Christman (1943- ), Class of 1965
2001-2006: Lt. Gen. William J. Lennox, Jr. (1950?- ), Class of 1971
2006-Present: Lt. Gen. Franklin Hagenbeck (1949- ), Class of 1971