Present Commandant General Charles C. Krulak
| Name |
From |
Years Commandant |
| Samual Nicholas |
Pennsylvania |
1775-1781 |
| William Ward Burrows |
South Carolina |
1798-1804 |
| Franklin Wharton |
Pennsylvania |
1804-1818 |
| Anthony Gale |
Ireland |
1819-1820 |
| Archibald Henderson |
Virginia |
1820-1859 |
| John Harris |
Pennsylvania |
1859-1864 |
| Jacob Zeilin |
Pennsylvania |
1864-1876 |
| Charles G. McCawley |
Pennsylvania |
1876-1891 |
| Charles Haywood |
Maine |
1891-1903 |
| George Elliot |
Alabama |
1903-1910 |
| William P. Biddle |
Wisconsin |
1911-1914 |
| George Barnett |
Wisconsin |
1914-1920 |
| John A. Lejeune |
Louisiana |
1920-1929 |
| Wendell Neville |
Virginia |
1929-1930 |
| Ben H. Fuller |
Michigan |
1930-1934 |
| John H. Russell |
California |
1934-1936 |
| Thomas Holcomb |
Delaware |
1936-1943 |
| Alexander A. Vandegrift |
Virginia |
1944-1947 |
| Clifton B. Gates |
Tennessee |
1948-1951 |
| Lemuel C. Sheperd, Jr. |
Virginia |
1952-1955 |
| Randolph McCall Pate |
South Carolina |
1956-1959 |
| David M. Shoup |
Indiana |
1960-1963 |
| Wallace M. Greene, Jr. |
Vermont |
1964-1967 |
| Leonard F. Chapman, Jr. |
Florida |
1968-1971 |
| Robert E. Cushman, Jr. |
Minnesota |
1972-1975 |
| Louis H. Wilson |
Mississippi |
1975-1979 |
| Robert H. Barrow |
Louisiana |
1979-1983 |
| Paul X. Kelley |
Massachusetts |
1983-1987 |
| Alfred M. Gray, Jr. |
New Jersey |
1987-1991 |
| Carl E. Mundy |
Georgia |
1991-1995 |
| Charles C. Krulak |
Virginia |
1995-Present |
