Leadership

Steven Biggs, 2025-2026 President
Missouri Society Sons of the American Revolution

Honorary Vice-Presidents

Special Functions Positions

Color Guard Commander, STEVEN G. PERKINS

Webmaster: DAVE DESMARAIS

Missouri Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
Chronological List of Presidents since 1889

(Presidents by Number since 1889)
No. Elected President

1 1889 & 1890 Josiah Fogg
2 1891 & 1892 Nathan Cole
3 1893 & 1894 Edward C. Cabell
4 1895 & 1896 George Eliot Leighton
5 1897,1898, & 1899 George Howell Shields (1)
6 1900 Edwin O. Standard
7 1901, 1902, & 1903 Clark Hamilton Sampson
8 1904 George Howell Shields (1)
9 1905, 1906, & 1907 Ashley Cabell
10 1908, 1909, & 1910 Rev. Samuel Jack Niccolls
11 1911 & 1912 Amedee Berthold Cole
12 1913 Edward Adreon Lawrence
13 1914 & 1915 Cyrus Packard Waldridge
14 1916, 1917, & 1918 Robert Enos Adreon
15 1919, 1920, & 1921 Willard Duncan Vandiver
16 1922, 1923, & 1924 Linn Paine
17 1925, 1926, 1927 Casper Salthiel Yost
18 1928 James Malcolm Breckenridge
19 1929 Frank Grenville Beardsley
20 1930 & 1931 Dr. George Connor Trawick
21 1932 & 1933 Samuel McKnight Green, Jr.
22 1934 & 1935 Frederick G. Williamson
23 1936 & 1937 James Alonzo Matthews
24 1938 & 1939 John Rush Powell
25 1940 & 1941 Marvin Edward Boisseau
26 1942 Allen Laws Oliver
27 1943 & 1944 Guy M. Wood
28 1945 Henry Frost Chadeayne
29 1946 Homer Hall
30 1947 & 1948 John William Giesecke
31 1949 & 1950 Lucian Erskine
32 1951 & 1952 John Holmes Dunn
33 1953 & 1954 William Pagenstecher
34 1955 & 1956 John Eagleton Burger
35 1957, 1958, 1959, & 1960 (Only as National Trustee) (Resigned) James McCraken Daugherty
36 1961 William Stanley Cordry
37 1962 Dr. Francis Todd H’Doubler (Died in office)
38 1962, 1963, & 1964 Charles A. Hardie
39 1965, 1966, & 1967 Sterling W. Hackmann
40 1968 & 1969 Hayden Maurice Robinett
41 1970 Lucian Howard Jadwin
42 1971 William Stanley Kenner
43 1972 Paul Warren Bennett
44 1973 Merrill D. Berkeley
45 1974 Dr. Claude Burns Wivel
46 1975 & 1976 John W. Hillemeyer
47 1977 Dr. Donald L. Worley
48 1978 Merle Martin Jackson (Resigned)
49 1978 & 1979 Wade K. Forman
50 1980 Seth B. Caperton
51 1981 & 1982 Burton Walter Mayfield
52 1983 Charles Whitney Calef
53 1984 Charles Rainwater Wollard
54 1985 & 1986 James Albin Shelby
55 1987 Irving Craig Uncapher
56 1988 Lawrence Lorenzo Loker
57 1889 & 1990 Paul Thurman Butler
58 1991 William Gordon Buckner
59 1992 Edward Stephen Gray
60 1993 Roy Franklin Hornbuckle
61 1994 Richard Lloyd Yohe (Died in Office)
62 1994 Dr. Earl-Clayton Grandstaff, Sr.
63 1995 Clarence Mott Pickard
64 1996 & 1997 Mark Stephen Schreiber
65 1998 Joseph A. Preston
66 1999 Robert LaVern Grover
67 2000 Richard Henry Hofer, Sr.
68 2001 David Nels Appleby
69 2002 Robert Wyckoff Smith
70 2003 Stephen Matthew Baldwin
71 2004 James L.R. Boyd, Jr.
72 2005 Keith Kenneman Brown, Sr.
73 2006 Gerald Rex McCoy
74 2007 Bob Everett Comer
75 2008 Russell Fredrick DeVenney, Jr.
76 2009 Daniel Ray McMurray
77 2010 Clifford Charles Olsen, II
78 2011 Denis Ray Craft
79 2012 Keith Bohacik
80 2013 Richard Todd Bryant
81 2014 Charles Elliott Lilly
82 2015 Robert Jay Corum
83 2016 Dale Alan Schmidt
84 2017 Dennis Jerome Hahn
85 2018 John Wayne Merrill (Wayne)
86 2019 James Elkin Osbourn
87 2020 Joseph Howard Fisk
88 2021 George Stanley Swales, Jr.
89 2022 James Michael Robertson
90 2023 David Roy Shaul
91 2024 Walter Eugene (Gene) Henry
92 2025 Steven Eugene Biggs

Notes:
(1) George Howell Shields is the only person to have two numbers (5 and 8) due to a four-year break
in his service as MOSSAR President.