Department
of New York Past State Commanders
*
Indicates PSC is deceased
^ Indicates
PSC was also a National Commander-In-Chief
In the Department of New York VFW Headquarters there is the Wall of Commanders that honors all of New York's past State Commanders and the National Commander-In-Chiefs who were from New York. Wall of Commanders
2023-2025 Daniel Kell Photograph Biography
2022-2023
Peter Pennelle
Photograph Biography
2021-2022
Michael Hoag
Photograph Biography
2020-2021
Thomas Howard
Photograph Biography
2019-2020
Thomas Todaro
Photograph Biography
2018-2019
Gene Ratigliano
Photograph Biography
2017-2018
Michael Burke
Photograph Biography
2016-2017
Dennis Sullivan
Photograph Biography
2015-2016
Marlene Roll
Photograph Biography
2014-2015
William "Doc" Schmitz^ Photograph Biography
2013-2014
Michael Pascal
Photograph Biography
2012-2013
James Durkin
Photograph Biography
2011-2012 Harold "Mick" Leavor Photograph Biography
2010-2011 Jack Veazy* Photograph Biography
2009-2010
Allan Davenport* Photograph Biography
2007-2008
Robert Barnhart
Photograph Biography
2006-2007
Donald Doell
Photograph Biography
2005-2006
James
McNally Photograph Biography
2004-2005
James Vinsonhaler
Photograph Biography
2003-2004
Harold M. Burke Jr. Photograph Biography
2002-2003
Karl Rohde
Photograph Biography
2001-2002
Bernard Thompson
Photograph Biography
2000-2001
Robert Seagrave*
Photograph Biography
1999-2000
Ronald J. Bush*
Photograph
1998-1999
Jack T. Smith*
Photograph Biography
1997-1998
Philip C. Schiffman* Photograph
1996-1997
Harry Wurth*
Photograph Biography
1995-1996
Arthur Koch III* Photograph Biography
1994-1995
Elton C. Klein*
Photograph
1993-1994
Alfred Bleich*
Photograph
1992-1993
James Longendyke Photograph
1991-1992
Mario Raimondi* Photograph
1990-1991
Peter G. Mazzarella* Photograph
1989-1990
Anthony Ferrarese*
Photograph
1988-1989
Ross Henry*
Photograph
1987-1988
Jack I. Simons*
Photograph
1986-1987
Christopher J. Mulcahy* Photograph
1985-1986
George S. Smith*
Photograph Biography
1984-1985
T. William Bossidy* Photograph
1983-1984
Ralph U. DeMarco* Photograph
1982-1983
Thomas E. Voss*
Photograph
1981-1982
Melvin Garrett
Photograph Biography
1980-1981
Clifford E. Galbraith* Photograph
1979-1980
William F. Ward*
Photograph
1978-1979
Thomas J. Fallon*
Photograph
1977-1978
Domenick Volpe*
Photograph
1976-1977
Charles Schnobrich* Photograph
1975-1976
James G. Kinsella* Photograph
1974-1975
Samuel C. Pilato* Photograph
1973-1974
Wolfgang Nauke*
Photograph
1972-1973
Earl Stock, Jr*^ Photograph
1971-1972
John M. York*
Photograph
1970-1971
Lavern F. Fenton* Photograph
1969-1970
Remigio E. Ferrara* Photograph
1968-1969
Frank W. Marcellus* Photograph
1967-1968
John Ray*
Photograph
1966-1967
Herbert C. Brian*
Photograph
1965-1966
Vincent J. DiMattina* Photograph
1964-1965
Arthur J. Vater*
Photograph
1963-1964
Heyman Rothbart*
Photograph
1962-1963
J. Mallory Loos*
Photograph
1961-1962
Ralph H. Tripp* Photograph
1960-1961
Leonard E. Friedlander* Photograph
1959-1960
Raymond J. McDonald* Photograph
1958-1959
Basil Valletta*
Photograph
1957-1958
Joseph Gumo*
Photograph
1956-1957
Daniel J. Brady* Photograph
1955-1956
Joseph Lombardo*^
Photograph
1954-1955
Leonard L. Schieffelin* Photograph
1953-1954
Edward Papantonio* Photograph
1952-1953
William J. Gordon* Photograph
1951-1952
Edward I. Condren*
Photograph
1950-1951
George J. Young* Photograph
1949-1950
Joseph P. Matthews*
Photograph
1948-1949
Ivan E. Cook*
Photograph
1947-1948
James J.A. Carberry* Photograph
1946-1947
C. Burton Huse*
Photograph
1945-1946
Merritt W. Baldwin* Photograph
1944-1945
Jacob A. Latona*
Photograph
1943-1944
Frank O. Champlin* Photograph
1942-1943
Adrian J. Grobsmith* Photograph
1941-1942
Paul S. Lawrence* Photograph
1940-1941
Richard W. Preston* Photograph
1939-1940
Thomas F. Twyford* Photograph
1938-1939
Graham H. Scott*
Photograph
1937-1938
Thomas P Layer*
Photograph
1936-1937
George C. Plume*
Photograph
1935-1936
Earl F. Campbell*
Photograph
1934-1935
William A. Garvey*
Photograph
1933-1934
Bernard W. Kearney*^ Photograph
1932-1933
George J. Soloman*
Photograph
1931-1932
James A. Armstrong* Photograph
1930-1931
Elmer E. Studley*
Photograph
1929-1930
Monroe Curtis*
Photograph
1928-1929
Col. George C. Traver* Photograph
1927-1928
Jean A. Brunner*^
Photograph
1926-1927
Dr. George A Green* Photograph
1925-1926
J. C. Thompson*
Photograph
1923-1925
William Tapley*
Photograph
1921-1923
James F. Kiernan*
Photograph
1920-1921
James F. Rorke*
Photograph
