USMA Superintendents

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: Col. Decius Wadsworth (1768-1821) (Acting)
• 1805-1812: Col. Jonathan Williams (1751-1815)
• 1812-1814: Col. Joseph G. Swift (1783-1865), Class of 1802 (Cullum 1)
• 1814-1817: Capt. Alden Partridge (1785-1854), Class of 1806 (Cullum 15)
• 1817-1833: Col. Sylvanus Thayer (1785–1872), Class of 1808 (Cullum 33) - Considered the true founder of the Academy, putting both discipline and education on a systematic footing.
• 1833-1838: Maj. René Edward De Russy (1796-1865), Class of 1812 (Cullum 89)
• 1838-1845: Richard Delafield (1798-1873), Class of 1818 (Cullum 180)
• 1845-1852: Henry Brewerton (1801-1879), Class of 1819 (Cullum 207)
• 1852-1855: Gen. Robert E. Lee (1807-1870), Class of 1829 (Cullum 542)
• 1855-1856: John G. Barnard (1815-1882), Class of 1833 (Cullum 708)
• 1856-1861: Richard Delafield (1798-1873), Class of 1818 (Cullum 180)
• Jan 23-28: 1861: Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard (1818-1893), Class of 1838 (Cullum 942) - Appointment revoked for his southern sympathies.
• Jan 28-Mar 1, 1861: Richard Delafield (1798-1873), Class of 1818 (Cullum 180)
• 1861-1864: Alexander Hamilton Bowman (1803-1865), Class of 1825 (Cullum 394)
• Jul to Sep 1864: Zealous B. Tower (1819-1900), Class of 1841 (Cullum 1059)
• 1864-1866: George W. Cullum (1809-1892), Class of 1833 (Cullum 709) - Established the Register of Graduates and the Association of Graduates as means toward reconciling the alumni after the War between the States.
• 1866-1871: Thomas Gamble Pitcher (1824-1895), Class of 1845 (Cullum 1270)
• 1871-1876: Thomas Howard Ruger (1833-1907), Class of 1854 (Cullum 1633)
• 1876-1881: Maj. Gen. John McAllister Schofield (1831-1906), Class of 1853 (Cullum 1585)– 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 (Cullum 1634)
• 1882-1887: Maj. Gen. Wesley Merritt (1834-1910), Class of 1860 (Cullum 1868)
• 1887-1889: Col. John Grubb Parke (1827-1900), Class of 1849 (Cullum 1408)
• 1889-1893: Col. John Moulder Wilson (1837-1919), Class of 1860 (Cullum 1858) - 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 (Cullum 2025)
• 1898-1906: Col. Albert Leopold Mills (1854-1916), Class of 1879 (Cullum 2796) - 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 (Cullum 2628)
• 1911-1912: Thomas Henry Barry (1855-1919), Class of 1877 (Cullum 2679)
• 1913-1917: Clarence Page Townsley, 18??-1926, Class of 1881 (Cullum 2892)
• 1917-1919: Samuel Escue Tillman (1847-1942), Class of 1869 (Cullum 2275)
• 1919-1922: Brig. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Class of 1903 - Awarded the Medal of Honor in 1942 for his leadership in Philippine resistance to the Japanese invasion. Sometimes considered the second founder of the Academy for his wide reforms.
• 1922-1925: Brig. Gen. Fred Winchester Sladen (1863-1945), Class of 1890 (Cullum 3357)
• 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
• 2006-2010: Lt. Gen. Franklin Hagenbeck (1949-  ), Class of 1971
• 2010-2013: Lt. Gen. David H. Huntoon (1951-  ), Class of 1973
• 2013-Present: Lt. Gen. Robert L. Caslen (1953-  ), Class of 1975

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