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Sons of the Revolution is a hereditary society which was founded in 1876 and educates the public about the American Revolution. The General Society Sons of the Revolution headquarters is a Pennsylvania non-profit corporation located at Williamsburg, Virginia. The Society is governed by a board of managers, an executive committee, officers, standing committees and their members, and staff. The General Society includes 28 State Societies and chapters in the United States, as well as Europe.
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Many notable celebrities and public leaders in the United States have been members of the Sons of the Revolution.
They include the following persons:
Presidents of the United States
- George W. Bush of Texas
- George H. W. Bush of Texas
- Gerald Ford of Michigan
- Dwight D. Eisenhower of Kansas
- Harry S. Truman of Missouri
- Herbert Hoover of Iowa
- Theodore Roosevelt of New York
- Benjamin Harrison of Ohio
United States Senators
- Lamar Alexander of Tennessee
- Morgan Bulkeley of Connecticut
- Cornelius Cole of California
- Frank Putnam Flint of California
- John McCain of Arizona
- Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania
- Lawrence Tyson of Tennessee
United States Representatives
- Franklin Bartlett of New York
- Perry Belmont of New York
- Charles E. Bennett of Florida
- Thornton G. Berry Jr. of West Virginia
- Chester C. Bolton of Ohio
- Edmund N. Carpenter of Pennsylvania
- Howard Coble of North Carolina
- William H. Douglas of New York
- Charles I. Faddis of Pennsylvania
- E. Hart Fenn of Connecticut
- Barry Goldwater Jr. of California
- Benjamin F. James of Pennsylvania
- Jefferson M. Levy of New York
- George B. McClellan Jr. of New York
- Cornelius A. Pugsley of New York
- Dana Rohrabacher of California
- Jacob van Vechten Olcott of New York
Ambassadors
- Larz Anderson of Massachusetts
- S.G.W. Benjamin of New York
- Lewis Einstein of New York
- Charles S. Francis of New York
- Hampson Gary of Texas
- George A. Gordon of New York
- Franklin Mott Gunther of the District of Columbia
- John Langeloth Loeb Jr. of New York
- J. William Middendorf of Rhode Island
- Richard C. Patterson Jr. of New York
- Phelps Phelps of Germany
- Charles H. Sherrill of New York
Other government officials
- James Rudolph Garfield of California
- Ethan A. Hitchcock
- John W. Weeks of Massachusetts
- William Adams Richardson
- John Lee Carroll
- Arch A. Moore, Jr.
- LeBaron Bradford Prince
- Chester Harding of the District of Columbia
- Charles H. Darling of Vermont
- William Hayward of New York
- Francis H. Parker of Connecticut
- William Gorham Rice of New York
- George B. McClellan Jr.
- George P. McLain
- Charles H. Delavan of New York
- Augustin W. Ferrin of New York
- Thomas H. Norton of New York
- James R. Parsons Jr. of New York
- J. Edward Lumbard of New York
- Robert E. Freer of Ohio
- James M. Beck of Pennsylvania
- Daniel Nash Morgan of Connecticut
Military and naval officers
- George Dewey, USN of Vermont
- Charles C. Krulak, USMC of California
- Charles Grymes McCawley, USMA of the District of Columbia
- Charles G. Sawtelle, USA of the District of Columbia
- Howard Fithian Kingman, USN of California
- Frank Ross McCoy
- William Denison Whipple, USA of New York
- Richard Napoleon Batchelder, USA of the District of Columbia
- Morris Cooper Foote of New York
- Royal T. Frank, USA
- Green Clay Goodloe, USMC of the District of Columbia
- Lyman W.V. Kennon, USA of Rhode Island
- Charles L. McCawley, USMC of the District of Columbia
- Samuel Mills, USV
- Edmund Rice, USA of Massachusetts
- James Stewart, USAFR of California
- Nicholas Longworth Anderson, USA
- Harrison Gray Otis, USA of California
- DeLancey Floyd-Jones, USA of New York
- Michael A. Milton, USA-R of North Carolina
- Charles Greenlief Ayers, USA of New York
- J. Fulmer Bright, USA of Virginia
- Bibb Graves, USA of Alabama
- Lawrence D. Tyson, USA of Tennessee
- Stephen Edward Huskey, USA of Texas
- Asa Bird Gardiner, USA of New York
- Pierre Christie Stevens, USA of the District of Columbia
- James Edward Carpenter, USA of Pennsylvania
- Orlando Henderson Petty, USN, Medal of Honor recipient of Pennsylvania
Distinguished citizens
- Henry L. P. Beckwith
- James Warner Bellah of California
- Perry Belmont of Rhode Island
- Samuel T. Bledsoe of California
- Richard Dix of California
- William May Garland of California
- John B. Hattendorf of Rhode Island
- Paul G. Hoffman of California
- Henry E. Huntington of California
- Orra E. Monnette of California
- Raphael Pumpelly of Rhode Island
- Frederick H. Rindge of California
- W. S. Van Dyke of California
- Robert A. Heinlein of Missouri