All of these lieutenant generals of the United States achieved sufficient notability to get their own entries on the English-language wikipedia: wearing three-star rank, 1945
Historic Listed in order of receiving the rank: •
George Washington, the first officer to be appointed to the grade of lieutenant general. He was later posthumously promoted to
General of the Armies of the United States in 1976. •
Winfield Scott, received a
brevet promotion to lieutenant general •
Ulysses S. Grant, later promoted to
General of the Army of the United States •
William T. Sherman, later promoted to
General of the Army of the United States •
Philip Sheridan, later promoted to
General of the Army of the United States •
John Schofield, while serving as
Commanding General of the United States Army •
Nelson A. Miles, while serving as
Commanding General of the United States Army •
Thomas Holcomb, the first U.S. Marine promoted to the rank as
Commandant of the Marine Corps in January 1942
World War II •
Frank Maxwell Andrews,
U.S. Army Air Forces, commander of U.S. Forces in the
European Theater, killed in an air crash •
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., commander of
U.S. Tenth Army, posthumously promoted to General •
Jimmy Doolittle, U.S. Army Air Forces, leader of the
Doolittle Raid on Japan in World War II and commander of the U.S.
Eighth Air Force,
Twelfth Air Force and
Fifteenth Air Force, later promoted to
general,
U.S. Air Force, after retirement •
Hugh Aloysius Drum, commander of
U.S. First Army •
Lucian Truscott, commander of the
U.S. Fifth Army •
Ira C. Eaker, U.S. Army Air Forces, commander of U.S.
Eighth Air Force, later posthumously promoted to general in 1986 •
Delos Carleton Emmons, commander of the Hawaiian Department •
Lloyd Fredendall, commander of
U.S. Second Army •
Leslie Groves, who ran the
Manhattan Project and oversaw
The Pentagon design and construction. •
Millard Harmon, U.S. Army Air Forces, commander of
Army Air Forces Pacific, lost during plane flight •
Thomas Holcomb,
U.S. Marine Corps,
Commandant of the Marine Corps during the first half of World War II, later promoted to general on retirement •
William S. Knudsen, director of production, Office of the Under Secretary of War. The first civilian to enter the Army at that rank. •
Lesley J. McNair, commander of
Army Ground Forces, later posthumously promoted to General •
Richard K. Sutherland, chief of staff to
General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, present on the for the
Empire of Japan's surrender signing. •
George S. Patton, commander of
U.S. Third Army, later promoted to General •
Joseph Stilwell, Commander of the China Burma India Theater and later Deputy Allied Commander in China.
1950s through 1980s; Korean War, Vietnam War, Cold War •
Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller,
U.S. Marine Corps, the most decorated Marine in
Marine Corps history (only Marine ever to be awarded the
Navy Cross five times) •
Lewis Blaine Hershey, head of the
Selective Service System 1940–70, lieutenant general 1956–70, then promoted to general, retired 1973 at age 79. •
Edgar S. Harris Jr., former chief of staff and vice commander in chief of the
Strategic Air Command and former commander of the
Eighth Air Force. •
Robert Sink, former commander of the
506th Parachute Infantry Regiment (
Band of Brothers), the
XVIII Airborne Corps and the
Strategic Army Corps. •
Hal Moore, former commander of the
1st Cavalry Division •
Eugene Forrester, commander of
United States Army Pacific (Western Command) from 1981 through .1983 •
Julius W. Becton Jr., former commander of the
VII Corps in Europe, director of the
Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance in the United States Agency for International Development (US AID), and Director of
FEMA from 1985 to 1989 •
William Eldridge Odom, head of the
National Security Agency under president
Ronald Reagan, outspoken opponent of the
Iraq War and
warrantless wiretapping of US citizens. •
Thomas P. Stafford,
U.S. Air Force,
NASA astronaut, flew on
Gemini 6A,
Gemini 9,
Apollo 10 &
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. Promoted to lieutenant general in 1979 as deputy chief of staff, research development and acquisition, Headquarters USAF,
Washington D.C. Post-Cold War •
Thomas L. Baptiste, deputy chairman, NATO Military Committee, Brussels, Belgium. •
David Barno,
USA (Ret): former commander of
Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan during the
War in Afghanistan •
Carol A. Mutter,
USMC (Ret): first woman to be promoted to lieutenant general (1 September 1996) •
Claudia J. Kennedy,
USA (Ret): first woman to be promoted to lieutenant general in the United States Army (17 June 1997) •
Ricardo Sanchez,
USA (Ret): former commander
U.S. V Corps, former commander of US ground forces in
Iraq •
Samuel V. Wilson,
USA (Ret):
Ranger Hall of Fame,
Delta Force co-founder, former commander of the 6th
Special Forces: former Deputy to director,
Central Intelligence Agency, former director of the
Defense Intelligence Agency, former President of
Hampden-Sydney College •
John B. Sylvester: former deputy chief of staff for
NATO in
Bosnia-Herzegovina •
Mark Hertling •
Jack Bergman, USMC (Ret):
US Congressman, former commander
United States Marine Corps Reserve •
Susan Helms,
United States Air Force (Ret): former commander
14th Air Force and former NASA astronaut •
Michael T. Flynn,
USA (Ret): former
Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (2012–2014) and
National Security Advisor (2017) •
H. R. McMaster,
USA:
National Security Advisor (2017–2018) •
Nina M. Armagno,
USSF: first Director of Staff, Space Staff (Since 2020) •
David J. Julazadeh,
United States Air Force (Ret): Deputy Chief of Staff for Capability Development, Headquarters
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