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Surgeon General of the United States Army



This article is about the senior physician in the U.S. Army. For the head of the U.S. Public Health Service, see Surgeon General of the United States. For other uses, see Surgeon General (disambiguation).

The Surgeon General of the United States Army is the senior-most medical corps officer in the U.S. Army. In recent times, this has been a Lieutenant General who serves as Commanding General, U.S. Army Medical Command (MEDCOM) and head of the U.S. Army Medical Department (AMEDD). His (or her) office and staff are known as the Office of the Surgeon General (OTSG) and are located in Falls Church, Virginia.

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History

Congress established the Medical Service of the Continental Army on July 27, 1775 and emplaced a "Chief physician & director general" of the Continental Army as its head at that time. The first five “surgeons general” of the U.S. Army served under this title. An Act of May 28, 1789 established a "Physician general" of the U.S. Army (only Doctors Richard Allison and James Craik served according to this nomenclature). An Act of March 13, 1813 cited the "Physician & surgeon general" of the U.S. Army. This nomenclature remained in place until the U.S. Army Medical Corps (or Medical Department) was established by the Reorganization Act of April 14, 1818. (Physicians assigned to the U.S. Army were not accorded military rank until 1847.)

List of Surgeons General of the United States Army

No. Name Dates of Tenure Military Rank
1 Benjamin Church, Jr July 27, 1775–October 16, 1775 None
2 John Morgan October 1775–January 1777 None
3 William Shippen, Jr. April 11, 1777–January 1781 None
4 John Cochran January 17, 1781–1783 None
VACANT 1783–1792 --
5 Richard Allison 1792–1796 None
VACANT 1796–1798 --
6 James Craik August 1, 1798–June 15, 1800 None
VACANT 1800–1813 --
7 James Tilton June 11, 1813–June 15, 1815 None
VACANT June 15, 1815–April 18, 1818 --
8 Joseph Lovell April 18, 1818–October 17, 1836 None
9 Thomas Lawson 1836–May 15, 1861 Brigadier General (Brevet)
10 Clement Finley 1861–1862 Brigadier General
11 William Alexander Hammond April 28, 1862–August 18, 1864 Brigadier General
12 Joseph K. Barnes 1864–1882 Brigadier General
13 Charles H. Crane 1882–1883 Brigadier General
14 Robert Murray 1883–1886 Brigadier General
15 John Moore 1886–1890 Brigadier General
16 Jedediah Hyde Baxter 1890 Brigadier General
17 Charles Sutherland 1890–1893 Brigadier General
18 George Miller Sternberg May 30, 1893– 1902 Brigadier General
19 William H. Forwood June 8, 1902– September 7, 1902 Brigadier General
20 Robert M. O'Reilly 1902–1909
21 George H. Torney 1909–1913
22 William Crawford Gorgas January 1914–1918 Major General
23 Merritte Weber Ireland 1918–1931 Major General
24 Robert U. Patterson 1931–1935 Major General
25 Charles R. Reynolds 1935–1939 Major General
26 James C. Magee 1939–1943 Major General
27 Norman T. Kirk 1943–1947 Major General
28 Raymond W. Bliss 1947–1951 Major General
29 George E. Armstrong 1951–1955 Major General
30 Silas B. Hays 1955–1959
31 Leonard D. Heaton June 1959–1969 Lieutenant General
32 Hal B. Jennings 1969–October 1973
33 Richard R. Taylor October 1973–1977 Lieutenant General
34 Charles C. Pixley 1977–1981 Lieutenant General
35 Bernard T. Mittemeyer 1981–1985 Lieutenant General
36 Quinn H. Becker 1985–1988 Lieutenant General
37 Frank F. Ledford, Jr 1988–1992 Lieutenant General
38 Alcide M. Lanoue 1992–October 1996 Lieutenant General
39 Ronald R. Blanck October 1996– September 22, 2000 Lieutenant General
40 James B. Peake September 22, 2000 – July 8, 2004 Lieutenant General
41 Kevin C. Kiley September 30, 2004–March 12, 2007 Lieutenant General
Gale Pollock (Acting) March 12, 2007–December 11, 2007[1] Major General
42 Eric B. Schoomaker December 11, 2007– Lieutenant General
  • Note: The AMEDD Museum at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas has a display on the Army Surgeons General including images of all of them except Dr. Richard Allison.

References and notes

  1. ^ Army News Release. MG Pollock, a U.S. Army Nurse Corps officer, served as Acting Surgeon General for nine months after LTG Kiley resigned in the wake of the 2007 Walter Reed Army Medical Center neglect scandal.

See also
 
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