| Bvt. BG Cyrus B. Comstock |
U.S. Army |
1879-1895 |
| Benjamin Harrison (Indiana) |
Civilian |
1879-1881 |
| James B. Eads (Missouri) |
Civilian Engineer |
1879-1883 |
| Henry Mitchell |
U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey |
1879-1888 |
| Bvt. MG Quincy A. Gillmore |
U.S. Army |
1879-1888 |
| Bvt. BG Charles R. Suter |
U.S. Army |
1879-1896 |
| Benjamin M. Harrod (Louisiana) |
Civilian Engineer |
1879-1904 |
| Robert S. Taylor (Indiana) |
Civilian |
1881-1914 |
| Samuel W. Ferguson (Mississippi) |
Civilian Engineer |
1883-1890 |
| George Davidson |
U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey |
1888-1890 |
| Lt. Col. Oswald H. Ernst |
U.S. Army |
1888-1894 |
| Henry L. Whiting |
U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey |
1890-1897 |
| Henry Flad (Missouri) |
Civil Engineer |
1890-1898 |
| Lt. Col. Amos Stickney |
U.S. Army |
1894-1901 |
| MAJ Thomas Handbury |
U.S. Army |
1896-1902 |
| Henry L. Marindin |
U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey |
1897-1904 |
| John A. Ockerson (Missouri) |
Civilian Engineer |
1898-1924 |
| Lt. Col. Henry M. Adams |
U.S. Army |
1901-1904 |
| MAJ Thomas Casey |
U.S. Army |
1902-1906 |
| Lt. Col. Clinton B. Sears |
U.S. Army |
1904-1906 |
| Henry B. Richardson (Louisiana) |
Civilian Engineer |
1904-1909 |
| Homer P. Ritter |
U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey |
1904-1919 |
| Lt. Col. James L. Lusk |
U.S. Army |
1906-1906 |
| Col. William T. Rossell |
U.S. Army |
1906-1913 |
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| Col. James G. Warren |
U.S. Army |
1906-1919 |
| Charles H. West (Mississippi) |
Civilian Engineer |
1910-1933 |
| Col. Curtis McDonald Townsend |
U.S. Army |
1911-1920 |
| Col. Lansing H. Beach |
U.S. Army |
1913-1920 |
| Edward A. Glenn (Missouri) |
Civilian |
1914-1923 |
| Robert L. Faris |
U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey |
1919-1932 |
| Col. Mason M. Patrick |
U.S. Army |
1919-1920 |
| Col. Harry Burgess |
U.S. Army |
1920-1922 |
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| Col. Herbert Deakyne |
U.S. Army |
1920-1920 |
| Lt. Col. Gustave R. Lukesh |
U.S. Army |
1921-1925 |
| Col. George M. Hoffman |
U.S. Army |
1922-1927 |
| Jerome O. Christie (Illinois) |
Civilian |
1923-1926 |
| Edward Flad (Missouri) |
Civilian Engineer |
1924-1950 |
| Col. Charles W. Kutz |
U.S. Army |
1925-1928 |
| John W. Stipes (Illinois) |
Civilian |
1926-1930 |
| Col. Edward H. Schulz |
U.S. Army |
1927-1929 |
| Col. Ernest Graves (retired) |
U.S. Army |
1928-1953 |
| Lt. Col. Jarvis J. Bain |
U.S. Army |
1929-1930 |
| Lawrence A. Glenn (Illinois) |
Civilian |
1930-1933 |
| Col. George R. Spalding |
U.S. Army |
1930-1935 |
| RADM Leo O. Colbert |
U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey |
1933-1956 |
| Col. Francis B. Wilby |
U.S. Army |
1935-1938 |
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| Harry N. Pharr (Arkansas) |
Civilian Engineer |
1935-1947 |
| Albert L. Culbertson (Illinois) |
Civilian |
1935-1954 |
| Col. Roger G. Powell |
U.S. Army |
1938-1941 |
| Col. Malcolm Elliott |
U.S. Army |
1941-1946 |
| Col. Clark Kittrell |
U.S. Army |
1946-1950 |
| DeWitt L. Pyburn (Louisiana) |
Civilian Engineer |
1948-1968 |
| BG Don G. Shingler |
U.S. Army |
1950-1952 |
| Eugene F. Salisbury (Missouri) |
Civilian Engineer |
1950-1965 |
| BG Herbert D. Vogel |
U.S. Army |
1952-1954 |
| BG Charles G. Holle |
U.S. Army |
1954-1955 |
| Egbert A. Smith (Illinois) |
Civilian |
1954-1956 |
| BG William E. Potter |
U.S. Army |
1954-1956 |
| Col. John L. Person |
U.S. Army |
1955-1956 |
| BG Paul D. Berrigan |
U.S. Army |
1956-1957 |
| BG Lyle E. Seeman |
U.S. Army |
1956-1958 |
| Harry L. Bolen (Illinois) |
Civilian |
1956-1961 |
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| RADM H. Arnold Karo (retired) |
U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey |
1956-1966 |
| MG Gerald E. Galloway |
U.S. Army |
1958-1958 |
| MG Keith R. Barney |
U.S. Army |
1958-1960 |
| BG William W. Lapsley |
U.S. Army |
1958-1961 |
| BG William R. Shuler |
U.S. Army |
1960-1962 |
| BG Jackson Graham |
U.S. Army |
1961-1963 |
| Harold T. Council (Mississippi) |
Civilian |
1961-1977 |
| BG Carroll H. Dunn |
U.S. Army |
1962-1964 |
| BG Robert F. Seedlock |
U.S. Army |
1963-1963 |
| BG Walter P. Leber |
U.S. Army |
1963-1967 |
| MG George H. Walker |
U.S. Army |
1964-1967 |
| Dr. Frederick H. Kellog (TN) |
Civilian Engineer |
1965-1974 |
| RADM James C. Tison (retired) |
U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey |
1967-1968 |
| BG William T. Bradley |
U.S. Army |
1967-1968 |
| MG Willard Roper |
U.S. Army |
1967-1974 |
| BG C. Craig Cannon |
U.S. Army |
1968-1969 |
| MG Clarence C. Haug |
U.S. Army |
1968-1969 |
| Roy T. Sessums (Louisiana) |
Civilian Engineer |
1968-1984 |
| RADM Don A. Jones |
National Oceanic Survey |
1968-1972 |
| MG Harold R. Parfit |
U.S. Army |
1970-1975 |
| RADM Adam L. Powell |
National Oceanic Survey |
1972-1979 |
| BG Wayne S. Nichols |
U.S. Army |
1974-1975 |
| W. Richard Hall (Tennessee) |
Civilian Engineer |
1974-1979 |
| BG Charles I. McGinnis |
U.S. Army |
1975-1977 |
| MG Elvin R. Heiberg, III |
U.S. Army |
1976-1979 |
| BG William R. Read |
U.S. Army |
1977-1979 |
| James W. Yancy (Arkansas) |
Civilian |
1978-1979 |
| MG Richard L. Harris |
U.S. Army |
1979-1980 |
| MG Louis W. Prentiss, Jr. |
U.S. Army |
1979-1981 |
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| Sam E. Angel (Arkansas) |
Civilian |
1979- |
| R.D. James (Missouri) |
Civilian Engineer |
1981- |
| MG Hugh Robinson |
U.S. Army |
1981-1983 |
| BG Richard S. Kem |
U.S. Army |
1981-1985 |
| RADM Herbert R. Lippold |
National Oceanic Survey |
1982-1983 |
| BG Jerome B. Hilmes |
U.S. Army |
1983-1988 |
| RADM John D. Bossler |
Nat. Oceanic & Atmosph. Adm. |
1984-1986 |
| BG Robert J. Dacey |
U.S. Army |
1985-1987 |
| Frank H. Walk (Louisiana) |
Civilian Engineer |
1987-1998 |
| BG Charles E. Edgar |
U.S. Army |
1987-1990 |
| RADM Wesley V. Hull |
Nat. Oceanic & Atmosph. Adm. |
1988-1990 |
| BG Gerald E. Galloway, Jr. |
U.S. Army |
1988-1995 |
| BG Paul Y. Chinen |
U.S. Army |
1990-1992 |
| RADM J. Austin Yeager |
Nat. Oceanic & Atmosph. Adm. |
1991-1995 |
| BG Albert J. Genetti, Jr. |
U.S. Army |
1992-1997 |
| RADM John C. Albright |
Nat. Oceanic & Atmosph. Adm. |
1995-1999 |
| BG Hans Van Winkle |
U.S. Army |
1997-1999 |
| William Clifford Smith (LA) |
Civilian Engineer |
1998-2012 |
| BG Robert Griffin |
U.S. Army |
1998-2001 |
| RADM Nicholas A. Prahl |
Nat. Oceanic & Atmosph. Adm. |
1999-2004 |
| BG Carl A. Strock |
U.S. Army |
1998-2001 |
| BG Steven R. Hawkins |
U.S. Army |
2001-2005 |
| BG David Fastabend |
U.S. Army |
2001-2003 |
| BG William T. Grisoli |
U.S. Army |
2003-2005 |
| RADM Samuel P. De Bow, JR |
Nat. Oceanic & Atmosph. Adm. |
2004-2007 |
| BG Bruce A. Berwick |
U.S. Army |
2005-2008 |
| BG Gregg F. Martin |
U.S. Army |
2005-2008 |
| RADM Jonathan W. Bailey |
Nat. Oceanic & Atmosph. Adm |
2007-2012 |
| BG William E. Rapp |
U.S. Army |
2008-2009 |
| MG John W. Peabody |
U.S. Army |
2008-2011 |
| BG John R.McMahon |
U.S. Army |
2009-2012 |
| BG Margaret Burcham |
U.S. Army |
2011-2014
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| RDML Gerd Glang |
Nat. Oceanic & Atmosph. Adm. |
2012-2016 |
| BG Anthony Funkhouser |
U.S. Army |
2012-2013 |
| Norma Jean Mattei |
Civilian Engineer |
2012- |
| BG John S. Kem |
U.S. Army |
2013-2015 |
| BG Richard G. Kaiser |
U.S. Army |
2014-2016 |
| BG David C. Hill |
U.S. Army |
2015- |
| *BG R. Mark Toy |
U.S. Army |
2016- |
| *RDML Shepard Smith |
Nat. Oceanic & Atmosph. Adm. |
2016- |
| * Nominee |
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