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Start |
End |
Name |
Class year |
Notability |
References |
3 |
1812 |
1814 |
Joseph Gardner Swift |
1802 |
Brigadier general; first graduate of the Academy; Chief of Engineers |
[a][17] |
4 |
1814 |
1817 |
Alden Partridge |
1806 |
Captain; served as Acting Superintendent and Professor of Engineering; his administration was regarded as unsatisfactory and negligent to duties; when Sylvanus Thayer was appointed, Partridge refused to relinquish command and was court-martialed; he was sentenced to be cashiered in November 1817, and resigned from the Army in April 1818 |
[a][46] |
5 |
1817 |
1833 |
Sylvanus Thayer |
1808 |
Brigadier general; "Father of West Point"; emphasized engineering; founded engineering schools; helped found the Academy's Association of Graduates; Sylvanus Thayer Award created by the Academy in his honor |
[a][47][48] |
6 |
1833 |
1838 |
René Edward De Russy |
1812 |
Brigadier general; military engineer; Union Army veteran |
[a][49] |
7 |
1838 |
1845 |
Richard Delafield |
1818 |
Major general; Chief of Engineers; American Civil War veteran; served as 7th, 11th, and 13th Superintendents |
[a][17] |
8 |
1845 |
1852 |
Henry Brewerton |
1819 |
Brigadier general; military engineer; Union Army veteran |
[a][50] |
9 |
1852 |
1855 |
Robert E. Lee |
1829 |
Colonel USA; graduated second in his class at the Academy, without demerits; son George Washington Custis Lee, class of 1854, graduated first in class; served in Confederate States Army ( 1861–1865); President, Washington and Lee University (1865–70) |
[a][51] |
10 |
1855 |
1856 |
John Gross Barnard |
1833 |
Major general; military engineer; Union Army veteran |
[a][52] |
11 |
1856 |
1861 |
Richard Delafield |
1818 |
Major general; Chief of Engineers; Union Army veteran; served as 7th, 11th, and 13th Superintendents |
[a][17] |
12 |
1861 |
1861 |
Pierre Gustave Toutant (P.G.T.) Beauregard |
1838 |
General CSA; military engineer; ordered the firing of shots at Fort Sumter, South Carolina that started the Civil War |
[a][53] |
13 |
1861 |
1861 |
Richard Delafield |
1818 |
Major general; Chief of Engineers; Union Army veteran; served as 7th, 11th, and 13th Superintendents |
[a][17] |
14 |
1861 |
1864 |
Alexander Hamilton Bowman |
1825 |
Lieutenant Colonel; military engineer; son Charles Stuart Bowman graduated from the Academy, class of 1860 |
[a][54] |
15 |
1864 |
1864 |
Zealous Bates Tower |
1841 |
Major general; military engineer; Union Army veteran |
[a][55] |
16 |
1864 |
1866 |
George Washington Cullum |
1833 |
Brigadier general; military engineer; wrote Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. in 1891 and developed the Cullum number system |
[a][56] |
17 |
1866 |
1871 |
Thomas Gamble Pitcher |
1845 |
Brigadier general; veteran of Battle of Harper's Ferry, Mexican–American War, and the Civil War |
[a][57] |
18 |
1871 |
1876 |
Thomas H. Ruger |
1854 |
Major general; military engineer and lawyer; veteran of Civil War; military engineer and lawyer; military Governor of Georgia (1868) |
[a][58] |
19 |
1876 |
1881 |
John McAllister Schofield |
1853 |
Lieutenant general; recipient of the Medal of Honor for his actions leading an attack at the Battle of Wilson's Creek; Superintendent of the Academy (1876–81); Commanding General of the United States Army (1888–95) |
[a][59] |
20 |
1881 |
1882 |
Oliver Otis Howard |
1854 |
Major general; recipient of the Medal of Honor for his actions leading an attack at the Battle of Seven Pines despite wound which resulted in the loss of his right arm; led the campaign against Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce tribe; founder of Howard University |
[a][30] |
21 |
1882 |
1887 |
Wesley Merritt |
1860 |
Major general; veteran of the Civil War and Spanish–American War; first Military Governor of the Philippines |
[a][59] |
22 |
1887 |
1889 |
John Parke |
1849 |
Major general; military engineer; Union Army veteran |
[a][60] |
23 |
1889 |
1893 |
John Moulder Wilson |
1860 |
Brigadier general; recipient of the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Malvern Hill though acutely ill; Chief of Engineers (1897–1901) |
[a][17] |
24 |
1893 |
1898 |
Oswald Herbert Ernst |
1864 |
Major general; military engineer; Union Army and Spanish–American War veteran |
[a][61] |
25 |
1898 |
1906 |
Albert Leopold Mills |
1879 |
Major general; recipient of the Medal of Honor for continuing to lead his men at the Battle of San Juan Hill despite being shot in the head and temporarily blinded; appointed Superintendent to West Point by President McKinley, which carried automatic promotion from First Lieutenant to Colonel |
[a][62][63] |
26 |
1906 |
1910 |
Hugh L. Scott |
1876 |
Major general; learned to speak many western Native American languages; Chief of Staff of the Army (1914–17) |
[a][64] |
27 |
1910 |
1912 |
Thomas Henry Barry |
1877 |
Major general; cavalry and infantry officer; veteran of Indian Wars, China Relief Expedition, and Philippine–American War |
[a][65] |
28 |
1912 |
1916 |
Clarence Page Townsley |
1881 |
Major general; coastal artillery officer; commanded 30th Infantry Division during World War I |
[a][66] |
29 |
1916 |
1917 |
John Biddle |
1881 |
Major general; military engineer; World War I veteran |
[a][67] |
30 |
1917 |
1919 |
Samuel Escue Tillman |
1869 |
Brigadier general; recalled from retirement during World War I to serve as superintendent; refused to add military aviation to the curriculum; instructor at the Academy for more than 30 years; author of numerous books on chemistry and geology |
[a][68] |
31 |
1919 |
1922 |
Douglas MacArthur |
1903 |
General of the Army, Field Marshal in the Philippine Army; United States occupation of Veracruz; Second Battle of the Marne, Battle of Saint-Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne Offensive during World War I; commander of the 42nd Infantry Division; established Honor Code, and intramural sports at the U.S. Military Academy; brigade commander in the Philippine Division; commander of the Philippine Department; Chief of Staff of the United States Army (1930–35); recipient of the Medal of Honor for actions during the Battle of Bataan, commander of the South West Pacific Area during World War II; Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers during the Occupation of Japan; Korean War; grandson of Wisconsin Governor Arthur MacArthur Sr.; son of Lieutenant General and Medal of Honor recipient Arthur MacArthur Jr. |
[a][69][70] |
32 |
1922 |
1925 |
Fred Winchester Sladen |
1890 |
Major general; Superintendent of Fort McHenry National Monument (1931–32) |
[a][71] |
33 |
1926 |
1927 |
Merch Bradt Stewart |
1896 |
Brigadier general; infantry officer; Spanish–American War veteran; commander 175th Infantry Brigade during World War I |
[a][72] |
34 |
1927 |
1928 |
Edwin Baruch Winans |
1891 |
Major general; instructor at military schools; commended for leadership of the 10th Cavalry Regiment |
[a][73] |
35 |
1929 |
1932 |
William Ruthven Smith |
1892 |
Major general; artillery and infantry officer; commanded 36th Infantry Division during World War I |
[a][74] |
36 |
1932 |
1938 |
William Durward Connor |
1897 |
Major general; awarded two Silver Stars; Commandant of Army War College |
[a] |
37 |
1938 |
1940 |
Jay Leland Benedict |
1904 |
Major general; artillery and staff officer; Army General Staff during World War II |
[a][75] |
38 |
1940 |
1942 |
Robert L. Eichelberger |
1909 |
General; American Expeditionary Force Siberia; commanded Eighth United States Army in World War II |
[a][76] |
39 |
1942 |
1945 |
Francis Bowditch Wilby |
1905 |
Major general; Chief of Staff of First United States Army (1939–41) |
[a][77] |
40 |
1945 |
1949 |
Maxwell Davenport Taylor |
1922 |
General; developed the phrasing of the Cadet Honor Code at the Academy; commander of 101st Airborne Division (1944–45); Chief of Staff of the Army (1955–59); Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1962–64); United States Ambassador to South Vietnam (1964–65) |
[a][78] |
41 |
1949 |
1951 |
Bryant Edward Moore |
August 1917 |
General; commanded 8th Infantry Division killed in a helicopter crash on 24 February 1951 while commanding the IX Corps during the Korean War |
[a][79] |
42 |
1951 |
1954 |
Frederick Augustus Irving |
April 1917 |
Major general; commander 24th Infantry Division during World War II |
[a][80] |
43 |
1954 |
1956 |
Blackshear M. Bryan |
1922 |
Lieutenant general; commanded Prisoner of War Division for all the United States during World War II; commanded First United States Army (1957–60); his son, Blackshear M. Bryan Jr., class of 1954, was killed in Vietnam |
[a][81] |
44 |
1956 |
1960 |
Garrison H. Davidson |
1927 |
Lieutenant general; Academy football coach (1933–37); combat engineer during World War II and the Korean War; helped construct The Pentagon |
[a][82] |
45 |
1960 |
1963 |
William Westmoreland |
1936 |
General; Distinguished Eagle Scout; given the Pershing Sword for the most able cadet upon graduation from the Academy; commander 101st Airborne Division; commander Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (1964–68); Chief of Staff of the Army (1968–72) |
[a][83] |
46 |
1963 |
1966 |
James Benjamin Lampert |
1936 |
Lieutenant general; combat engineer during World War II; early pioneer of nuclear weapons and nuclear power, served as General Leslie Groves' executive officer as part of the Manhattan Project after World War II; his father, James G. B. Lampert, class of 1910 was killed in World War I |
[a][84] |
47 |
1966 |
1969 |
Donald V. Bennett |
1940 |
General; Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (1969–72); commander United States Army Pacific (1972–74) |
[a][85] |
48 |
1969 |
1970 |
Samuel William Koster |
1942 |
Major general but demoted to brigadier general and denied a promotion to lieutenant general for covering up the My Lai Massacre |
[a][86] |
49 |
1970 |
1974 |
William Allen Knowlton |
January 1943 |
General; World War II and Vietnam War veteran; his daughter married General David Petraeus who was a cadet while Knowlton was Superintendent; Chief of Staff for United States European Command (1974–76) |
[a][87] |
50 |
1974 |
1977 |
Sidney Bryan Berry |
1948 |
Lieutenant general; Korean and Vietnam War veteran, wounded twice in Vietnam; Superintendent during the time women were first admitted to the Academy; Commissioner of Public Safety for the state of Mississippi (1980–84) |
[a][88] |
51 |
1977 |
1981 |
Andrew Jackson Goodpaster |
1939 |
General; 8th Infantry Division (1961–62); Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (1969–74); Commander in Chief of the United States European Command (CINCEUR) (1969–74); retired then became Superintendent, then retired a second time |
[a][89] |
52 |
1981 |
1986 |
Willard Warren Scott Jr. |
1948 |
Lieutenant general; commander 25th Infantry Division (1976–78); commander V Corps (1980–81) |
[a][90] |
53 |
1986 |
1991 |
Dave Richard Palmer |
1956 |
Lieutenant general; military historian; instructor at the Academy and the Vietnamese National Military Academy |
[91] |
54 |
1991 |
1996 |
Howard D. Graves |
1961 |
Lieutenant general; Rhodes Scholar; military engineer; Chancellor of the Texas A&M University System (1999–2003) |
[92] |
55 |
1996 |
2001 |
Daniel William Christman |
1965 |
Lieutenant general; graduated first in his class in 1965; Senior Vice President for International Affairs, U.S. Chamber of Commerce; four-time recipient of the Defense Distinguished Service Medal. |
[93] |
56 |
2001 |
2006 |
William James Lennox Jr. |
1971 |
Lieutenant general; artillery and staff officer; Deputy Commanding General Eighth United States Army; doctorate in literature from Princeton University |
[94] |
57 |
2006 |
2010 |
Franklin Lee Hagenbeck |
1971 |
Lieutenant general; commander 10th Mountain Division (2001–03) |
[95] |
58 |
2010 |
2013 |
David H. Huntoon |
1973 |
Lieutenant general; Director of the Army Staff; Former Commandant of the U.S. Army War College |
[96] |
59 |
2013 |
2018 |
Robert L. Caslen |
1975 |
Lieutenant general; chief of staff for Combined Joint Task Force-180 (CJTF-180) in Afghanistan from May through September 2002; Chief of the Office of Security Cooperation for Iraq |
[97] |
60 |
2018 |
2022 |
Darryl A. Williams |
1983 |
Lieutenant general; Managed U.S. response to the West African Ebola virus epidemic in 2016; Commander of NATO Allied Land Command (2016–2018); First black superintendent in the academy's history |
[98] |
61 |
2022 |
|
Steven W. Gilland |
1990 |
Lieutenant general; Academy's commandant of cadets (2017–2019), Commander of the 2nd Infantry Division (2019–2021) |
[99] |