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
2025-2026 James MacArthur Photograph
Biography
2023-2025 Daniel L. 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
2011-2014 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
Photographs 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
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
