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Lieutenant Generals (United States)

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  • Lieutenant General Arthur J. Gregg (1928 - 2024)
    Arthur James Gregg (May 11, 1928 – August 22, 2024) was an American military officer who on July 1, 1977, became the first African American in the U.S. Army to reach the rank of lieutenant general. P...
  • LTG. Harold Robert Aaron (1921 - 1980)
    Robert Aaron (June 21, 1921 – April 30, 1980) was a general in the U.S. Army.Originally from Indiana, Aaron graduated from United States Military Academy at West Point in 1943 and served in Europe duri...
  • Lieutenant General William I. Royla (1927 - 1990)
    LTG Rolya, a Signal Corps officer for most of his 35-year career, distinguished himself as a leader of both the Signal and Military Intelligence Branches.
  • Lt. Gen. Wade Hampton, III, (CSA), 77th Governor of South Carolina (1818 - 1902)
    • Hampton was one of only three Southern officers to achieve the rank of Lieutenant General in the Confederate States Army without any military training. • Hampton was defeated in the 1865 gubernatori...
  • Lieutenant General William Burns Caldwell, III (1925 - 2013)
    William B. Caldwell, III (July 20, 1925 – March 17, 2013) was a United States Army general who served 32 years in the U.S. Army and retired as the Fifth U.S. Army commanding general at Fort Sam Hou...

In the United States Armed Forces, a lieutenant general is a three-star general officer in the United States Army, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Space Force.

A lieutenant general ranks above a major general and below a general. The pay grade of lieutenant general is O-9. It is equivalent to the rank of vice admiral in the other United States uniformed services which use naval ranks. It is abbreviated as LTG in the Army, LtGen in the Marine Corps, and Lt Gen in the Air Force and Space Force.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieutenant_general_(United_States)

Lieutenant Generals in the United States Army before 1960

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lieutenant_generals_in_the_Un...

  1. Winfield Scott
  2. John M. Schofield
  3. Nelson A. Miles
  4. Samuel B. M. Young
  5. Adna R. Chaffee
  6. John C. Bates
  7. Henry C. Corbin
  8. Arthur MacArthur Jr.
  9. Hunter Liggett
  10. Robert L. Bullard
  11. Edgar Jadwin
  12. Hugh A. Drum
  13. Stanley H. Ford
  14. Stanley D. Embick
  15. Albert J. Bowley
  16. Charles D. Herron
  17. Daniel Van Voorhis
  18. Herbert J. Brees
  19. Delos C. Emmons
  20. Walter C. Short
  21. Frank M. Andrews
  22. George H. Brett
  23. William S. Knudsen
  24. James G. Harbord
  25. William M. Wright
  26. Millard F. Harmon
  27. Lloyd R. Fredendall
  28. Barton K. Yount
  29. George Grunert
  30. Richard K. Sutherland
  31. John C. H. Lee
  32. Raymond A. Wheeler
  33. Lewis H. Brereton
  34. Barney M. Giles
  35. Daniel I. Sultan
  36. Wilhelm D. Styer
  37. Harold L. George
  38. Edmund B. Gregory
  39. Oscar W. Griswold
  40. Eugene Reybold
  41. Levin H. Campbell Jr.
  42. Geoffrey Keyes
  43. George E. Stratemeyer
  44. Alvan C. Gillem Jr.
  45. Willis D. Crittenberger
  46. Charles P. Hall
  47. LeRoy Lutes
  48. Troy H. Middleton
  49. Ennis C. Whitehead
  50. Raymond S. McLain
  51. Clarence R. Huebner
  52. Manton S. Eddy
  53. Stephen J. Chamberlin
  54. Henry S. Aurand
  55. Willard S. Paul
  56. Leslie R. Groves
  57. Edward H. Brooks
  58. Thomas B. Larkin
  59. Harold R. Bull
  60. William H. H. Morris Jr.
  61. Stafford L. Irwin
  62. Frank W. Milburn
  63. Joseph M. Swing
  64. John W. Leonard
  65. John B. Coulter
  66. Edward M. Almond
  67. Doyle O. Hickey
  68. Andrew D. Bruce
  69. Lewis A. Pick
  70. John W. O'Daniel
  71. Horace L. McBride
  72. John T. Lewis
  73. George P. Hays
  74. Daniel Noce
  75. Alexander R. Bolling
  76. William B. Kean
  77. William K. Harrison Jr.
  78. Paul W. Kendall
  79. Reuben E. Jenkins
  80. Withers A. Burress
  81. Ralph J. Canine
  82. William H. Arnold
  83. Floyd L. Parks
  84. Walter L. Weible
  85. Thomas F. Hickey
  86. Blackshear M. Bryan
  87. Lemuel Mathewson
  88. John H. Collier
  89. Charles E. Hart
  90. Hobart R. Gay
  91. Stanley R. Mickelsen
  92. Thomas W. Herren
  93. Claude B. Ferenbaugh
  94. Laurin L. Williams
  95. James M. Gavin
  96. Robert N. Young
  97. Robert M. Montague
  98. George W. Read Jr.
  99. Samuel D. Sturgis III
  100. Clovis E. Byers
  101. Samuel T. Williams
  102. Alonzo P. Fox
  103. Edward T. Williams
  104. Emerson L. Cummings
  105. Francis W. Farrell
  106. John F. Uncles
  107. Ridgely Gaither
  108. Hanford MacNider
  109. Arthur G. Trudeau
  110. David A. D. Ogden
  111. Donald P. Booth
  112. Garrison H. Davidson
  113. William S. Lawton
  114. Robert M. Cannon
  115. Thomas J. H. Trapnell
  116. James D. O'Connell
  117. Thomas L. Harrold
  118. Gordon B. Rogers
  119. Robert W. Colglazier Jr.
  120. Emerson C. Itschner
  121. John H. Hinrichs
  122. Robert F. Sink
  123. Leonard D. Heaton
  124. John C. Oakes

Lieutenant Generals in the United States Air Force before 1960

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lieutenant_generals_in_the_Un...

  1. Delos C. Emmons
  2. Frank M. Andrews
  3. George H. Brett
  4. William S. Knudsen
  5. Millard F. Harmon
  6. Barton K. Yount
  7. Lewis H. Brereton
  8. Barney M. Giles
  9. Harold L. George
  10. George E. Stratemeyer
  11. Ennis C. Whitehead
  12. Idwal H. Edwards
  13. Howard A. Craig
  14. Elwood R. Quesada
  15. Hubert R. Harmon
  16. Kenneth B. Wolfe
  17. William E. Kepner
  18. Richard E. Nugent
  19. Robert W. Harper
  20. Charles B. Stone III
  21. Glenn O. Barcus
  22. Charles T. Myers
  23. Laurence C. Craigie
  24. Joseph Smith
  25. David M. Schlatter
  26. Bryant L. Boatner
  27. Joseph H. Atkinson
  28. William H. Tunner
  29. Donald L. Putt
  30. Roger M. Ramey
  31. Patrick W. Timberlake
  32. Clarence S. Irvine
  33. Elmer J. Rogers Jr.
  34. Manuel J. Asensio
  35. Earl W. Barnes
  36. Frank A. Armstrong Jr.
  37. John A. Samford
  38. Walter E. Todd
  39. Richard C. Lindsay
  40. William E. Hall
  41. Francis H. Griswold
  42. William D. Eckert
  43. George W. Mundy
  44. Oliver S. Picher
  45. Roy H. Lynn
  46. Roscoe C. Wilson
  47. Claire L. Chennault
  48. Robert W. Burns
  49. Archie J. Old Jr.
  50. James E. Briggs
  51. Emery S. Wetzel

United States Army Lieutenant Generals from 2010 to 2019

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Army_lieutenant...

United States Air Force Lieutenant Generals from 2010 to 2019

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Air_Force_lieut...

United States Marine Corps Lieutenant Generals since 2010

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Marine_Corps_li...

United States Army Lieutenant Generals since 2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Army_lieutenant...

United States Air Force Lieutenant Generals since 2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Air_Force_lieut...