Commander in Chief, South West Pacific Area (CINCSWPA), 1942–1945.Army Forces in the Far East (CG USAFFE), 1941–1942. Field Marshal of the Philippine Army, as of August 24, 1936.Awarded Pulitzer Prize for History, 1932 Congressional Gold Medal, 1946. Chairman, American Battle Monuments Commission, 1923–1948 Chairman, Tacna-Arica Plebiscitary Commission, 1925–1926. (1860–1948) Promoted to General of the Armies. Commanding General, American Expeditionary Forces (CG AEF), 1917–1921.Military Representative, Allied Supreme War Council, 1918–1919. (1820–1891) Superintendent, Louisiana Seminary of Learning and Military Academy, 1860–1861. Married great-aunt of Navy four-star admiral U. (1732–1799) Promoted to General of the Armies. General and Commander in Chief, Continental Army, 1775–1783.Each entry lists the general's name, date of rank, active-duty positions held while serving at four-star rank, number of years of active-duty service at four-star rank ( Yrs), year commissioned and source of commission, number of years in commission when promoted to four-star rank ( YC), and other biographical notes.

Military Academy (USMA), 53 via Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) at a civilian university, 16 via direct commission (direct), 14 via Officer Candidate School (OCS), eight via ROTC at a senior military college, one via ROTC at a military junior college, one via direct commission in the Army National Guard (ARNG), one via the aviation cadet program, and one via battlefield commission.Įntries in the following list of four-star generals are indexed by the numerical order in which each officer was promoted to that rank while on active duty, or by an asterisk (*) if the officer did not serve in that rank while on active duty in the U.S. Generals entered the Army via several paths: 161 were commissioned via the U.S. Army eight were promoted after retirement five were promoted posthumously and one ( George Washington) was appointed to that rank in the Continental Army, the U.S.

Of these, 242 achieved that rank while on active duty in the U.S. There have been 256 four-star generals in the history of the U.S. It ranks above lieutenant general ( three-star general) and below General of the Army ( five-star general). The rank of general (or full general, or four-star general) is the highest rank normally achievable in the U.S. This is a complete list of four-star generals in the United States Army, past and present.

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