Department Officers
Elected Officers
Senior Vice Commander
John Wilder
Junior Vice Commander
Rev. Peter Preble
Secretary/Treasurer
John Dupre, PDC
Department Counsel
Kevin Tucker, PDC
Dexter Bishop, PDC
William B Naughton
Past Department of Massachusetts Commanders
1883 Fred J. Bradford
1884 Hon. Joseph B. Mccabe *
1884 Lt. Col. Charles F. Sargent
1885 Henry S. Crossman
1886 George H. Cleveland
1887 John H. Hinckley
1888 Nathan C. Upham
1889 Dudley B. Purbeck
1890 William A. Stevens
1891 Gen. Charles K. Darling *
1892 Walter H. Delano
1893 Albert C. Blaisdell
1894 Daniel F. Goulding
1895 Fred E. Bolton *
1896 Harry D. Sisson *
1897 Orange H. Cook
1898 Leonard C. Couch
1899 Rev. George N. Howard
1900 Frederick E. Warner
1901 Edwin H. Lounsbury
1902 D. Murray Travis
1903 Orra L. Stone
1904 Harry M. Holbrook
1905 Everett H. Lynds
1906 Walter Penny
1907 James H. Wentworth
1908 William O. Cutler
1909 Frank E. Warren
1910 George M. Tucker
1911 James T. Wellington
1912 Frank L. Kirchgassner *
1913 H. Harding Hale *
1914 Frank J. Donahue
1915 Guy Richardson
1916 Rev. Allen A. Bronsdon
1917 Dr. Ernest W. Homan *
1918 Rufus A. Soule, Jr.
1919 Ellsworth M. Brown
1920 Frederic V. Bell
1921 Fred E. Upham
1922 William L. Anderson *
1923 Eugene F. Atwood
1924 Alfred M. Spear
1925 Henry F. Welier
1926 Charles H. E. Moran *
1927 William E. Choate
1928 Arthur C. Drew
1929 Chester A. White
1930 Charles M. Appleton
1931 Addison A. Quinn
1932 Lester D. Hobson
1933 William O. Fuller
1934 Ralph L. Smith
1935 Thomas L. Crawford
1936-38 Elias R. Sweet
1938-39 Parker B. Chandler
1939-40 Frederic G. Bauer *
1940-41 George E. Hunt
1941-42 John W. Emery
1942-44 Louis E. Winchell
1944-45 William Haskell *
1945-46 Lawrence D. Riley
1946-47 George W. Kimball
1947-48 Harold M. Brown
1948-49 Allen B. Howland *
1949-50 Roy C. Call
1950-51 William C. Rule
1951-52 Herbert L. Smith
1952-53 Carder A. Perkins
1953-54 Harold P. Shepardson
1954-55 Charles W. Hooper, Sr.
1955-56 Millard F. Brown
1956-57 John L. Day
1957-58 Everett M. Atwood
1958-59 Edward J. Lennon
1959-60 Clark L. Mellor *
1960-61 Henry S. Bowen, Sr.
1961-62 Edward L. Bresette
1962-63 Ernest G. Wells
1963-64 John J. Mitcheson
1964-65 Alford M. Bowen, Jr.
1965-66 James K. Cheney
1966-67 Chester W. Adshead
1967-68 Herbert L. Jackson
1968-69 Robert L. Wood
1969-70 Howard E. Waite
1970-71 Gilman W. Harrington
1971-72 Alfred J. Durocher
1972-73 Elmer W. Shaw, Jr.
1973-74 Eugene Russell *
1974-75 Leslie E. Covey
1975-76 Eugene Russell *
Appointed Officers
Patriotic Instructor: George Maple
Chaplain: Dexter Bishop
Graves Registration: William B. Naughton
Historian: Rev. Peter Preble
Civil War Memorials: Kenneth London, PCC
Eagle Scout Coordinator: Michael Terry
Counselor: Kevin Tucker, PDC
G.A.R. Highway Officer: George Maple
R.O.T.C. Award Officer: Al Smith
Guide: Charles Lewis
Signals Officer (Webmaster): Ron Glidden
Department Quartermaster: John Wilder
Camp Organizer: Dexter Bishop, PDC
Guard: Henry Buckley
1976-77 Miles Harrington
1977-78 Lewis E. Garney
1978-79 William R. Cohen
1979-80 Charles W. Hooper, Jr.
1980-81 George E. Place
1981-82 Irving Comee
1982-83 Frank J. Tucker
1983-84 Lewis E. Garney
1984-85 Clark Mellor *
1985-86 Kenneth Oakley
1986-87 Ray Hutchinson
1987-88 Joseph R. Gauthier
1988-89 Elmer W. Shaw, Jr.
1989-90 Joseph R. Gauthier
1990-92 Edward W. Parks
1992-94 Frank J. Tucker
1994-96 Roger L. Olsen
1996-97 Ellsworth W. Brown
1997-98 Frank J. Tucker
1998-00 Frederic S. Cauldwell
2000-02 William T. Ryerson, Sr.
2002-04 Robert H. Knight
2004-06 John W. Bates III
2006-09 Perley Mellor *
2009-11 Kevin Tucker
2011-13 George Maple Jr.
2013-15 Ed Norris
2015-17 Dexter Bishop
2017-19 Daniel Murray
2019-21 Stuart H. Chambers
2021-22 William Naughton
2022-24 John Dupre
2024- Roderick J Fraser Jr.
* Denotes Department Commanders who also served as National Commander in Chief
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