y, Seattle.

WEST VIRGINIA:
Chairman: Jackson Arnold, 111 Court Ave., Weston.
Secretary: Chas. McCamic, 904 Nat'l. Bank of West Virginia Bldg.,
Wheeling.

WISCONSIN:
Chairman: E.F. Ackley, 226 First Nat'l. Bk. Bldg., Milwaukee.
Secretary: R.N. Gibson, Grand Rapids.

WYOMING:
Chairman: A.H. Beach, Lusk.
Secretary: R.H. Nichols, Casper.

CONSTITUTION OF THE AMERICAN LEGION
AS ADOPTED BY
THE ST. LOUIS CAUCUS

May 10, 1919

PREAMBLE

For God and Country we associate ourselves together for the following
purposes:

To uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America;
to maintain law and order; to foster and perpetuate a one hundred per
cent. Americanism; to preserve the memories and incidents of our
association in the Great War; to inculcate a sense of individual
obligation to the community, state, and nation; to combat the
autocracy of both the classes and the masses; to make right the master
of might; to promote peace and good will on earth; to safeguard and
transmit to posterity the principles of justice, freedom, and
democracy; to consecrate and sanctify our comradeship by our devotion
to mutual helpfulness.

ARTICLE I

_Name_

The name of this organization shall be THE AMERICAN LEGION.

ARTICLE II

_Membership_

All persons shall be eligible to membership in this organization who
were in the military or naval service of the United States during the
period between April 6, 1917, and November 11, 1918, both dates
inclusive, and all persons who served in the military or naval
services of any of the governments associated with the United States
during the World War, provided that they were citizens of the United
States at the time of their enlistment, and are again citizens at the
time of application, except those persons who separated from the
service under terms amounting to dishonorable discharge and except
also those persons who refused to perform their military duties on the
ground of conscientious or political obligation.

ARTICLE III

_Nature_

While requiring that every member of the organization perform his full
duty as a citizen according to his own conscience and understanding,
the organization shall be absolutely non-partisan, and shall not be
used for the dissemination of partisan principles, or for the
promotion of the candidacy of any person seeking public office or
preferment.

ARTICLE IV

_Administration_