TEXAS: 
  Chairman:  Claude B. Birkhead, San Antonio. 
  Secretary:  J.A.  Belzer, Austin.

UTAH: 
  Chairman:  Harold R. Smoot, Salt Lake City. 
  Secretary:  Baldwin Robertson, 409 Ten Boston Bldg., Salt Lake City.

VIRGINIA: 
  Chairman:  Andrew D. Christian, c/o Ruy & Power Bldg., Richmond. 
  Secretary:  R.G.M.  Ross, 508 1st Nat’l.  Bank Bldg.  Newport News.

VERMONT: 
  Chairman:  H. Nelson Jackson, Burlington. 
  Secretary:  Joseph H. Fountain, 138 Colchester Ave., Burlington.

WASHINGTON. 
  Chairman:  Harvey A. Moss, Seattle. 
  Secretary:  George R. Drever, c/o Adj.  Gen. Office, Armory, Seattle.

WEST VIRGINIA: 
  Chairman:  Jackson Arnold, 111 Court Ave., Weston. 
  Secretary:  Chas. McCamic, 904 Nat’l.  Bank of West Virginia Bldg.,
               Wheeling.

WISCONSIN: 
  Chairman:  E.F.  Ackley, 226 First Nat’l.  Bk.  Bldg., Milwaukee. 
  Secretary:  R.N.  Gibson, Grand Rapids.

WYOMING: 
  Chairman:  A.H.  Beach, Lusk. 
  Secretary:  R.H.  Nichols, Casper.

CONSTITUTION OF THE AMERICAN LEGION
AS ADOPTED BY
THE ST. LOUIS CAUCUS

May 10, 1919

PREAMBLE

For God and Country we associate ourselves together for the following purposes: 

To uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America; to maintain law and order; to foster and perpetuate a one hundred per cent.  Americanism; to preserve the memories and incidents of our association in the Great War; to inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the community, state, and nation; to combat the autocracy of both the classes and the masses; to make right the master of might; to promote peace and good will on earth; to safeguard and transmit to posterity the principles of justice, freedom, and democracy; to consecrate and sanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness.

ARTICLE I

Name

The name of this organization shall be THE AMERICAN LEGION.

ARTICLE II

Membership

All persons shall be eligible to membership in this organization who were in the military or naval service of the United States during the period between April 6, 1917, and November 11, 1918, both dates inclusive, and all persons who served in the military or naval services of any of the governments associated with the United States during the World War, provided that they were citizens of the United States at the time of their enlistment, and are again citizens at the time of application, except those persons who separated from the service under terms amounting to dishonorable discharge and except also those persons who refused to perform their military duties on the ground of conscientious or political obligation.