This is a list of commanders of the US 1st Cavalry Division of the United States Army.
MG Robert L. Howze September 1921 – June 1925 BG Joseph C. Castner June 1925 – January 1926 MG Edwin B. Winans January 1926 – October 1927 BG Samuel D. Rockenbach October 1927 – November 1927 MG George Van Horn Moseley November 1927 – September 1929 BG Charles J. Symmonds September 1929 – October 1930 BG George C. Barnhardt October 1930 – December 1930 MG Ewing E. Booth December 1930 – March 1932 BG Walter Cowen Short March 1932 – March 1933 MG Frank R. McCoy March 1933 – October 1933 BG Walter Cowen Short October 1933 – April 1934 BG Hamilton S. Hawkins III April 1934 – September 1936 BG Francis L. Parker September 1936 – October 1936 MG Ben Lear October 1936 – November 1938 MG Kenyon A. Joyce November 1938 – October 1940 MG Robert C. Richardson Jr. October 1940 – February 1941 MG Innis Palmer Swift February 1941 – August 1944 MG Verne D. Mudge August 1944 – February 1945 BG Hugh F. T. Hoffman February 1945 – July 1945 MG William C. Chase August 1945 – February 1949 BG William B. Bradford February 1949 – February 1949 MG John M. Devine February 1949 – August 1949 BG Henry I. Hodes August 1949 – September 1949 MG Hobart R. Gay September 1949 – February 1951 MG Charles D. Palmer February 1951 – July 1951 MG Thomas L. Harrold July 1951 – March 1952 MG Arthur G. Trudeau March 1952 – March 1953 BG William J. Bradley March 1953 – April 1953 MG Joseph P. Cleland May 1953 – June 1953 MG Armistead D. Mead June 1953 – December 1954 BG Orlando C. Troxel Jr. December 1954 – May 1955 MG Edward J. McGaw May 1955 – November 1956 MG Edwin H. J. Carns November 1956 – August 1957 MG Ralph W. Zwicker October 1957 – January 1958 MG George E. Bush January 1958 – April 1959 MG Charles E. Beauchamp April 1959 – May 1960 MG Charles G. Dodge May 1960 – December 1960 MG Frank H. Britton December 1960 – July 1961 MG James K. Woolnough July 1961 – September 1962 BG Donald C. Clayman September 1962 – October 1962 MG Clifton F. Von Kann October 1962 – June 1963 BG Charles P. Brown June 1963 – August 1963 MG Charles Leonard August 1963 – October 1964 MG Hugh M. Exton October 1964 – June 1965 MG Harry W. O. Kinnard July 1965 – May 1966 MG John Norton May 1966 – March 1967 MG John J. Tolson March 1967 – August 1968 BG Richard L. Irby August 1968 – August 1968 MG George I. Forsythe August 1968 – April 1969 MG Elvy B. Roberts May 1969 – May 1970 MG George W. Casey Sr. May 1970 – July 1970 MG George W. Putnam August 1970 – May 1971 MG James C. Smith May 1971 – January 1973 MG Robert M. Shoemaker January 1973 – February 1975 MG Julius W. Becton Jr. February 1975 – November 1976 MG W. Russell Todd November 1976 – November 1978 MG Paul S. Williams Jr. November 1978 – November 1980 MG Richard D. Lawrence November 1980 – July 1982 MG Andrew P. Chambers July 1982 – June 1984 MG Michael J. Conrad June 1984 – June 1986 MG John J. Yeosock June 1986 – May 1988 MG William F. Streeter May 1988 – July 1990 MG John H. Tilelli Jr. July 1990 – July 1992 MG Wesley K. Clark July 1992 – March 1994 MG Eric K. Shinseki March 1994 – July 1995 MG Leon J. LaPorte July 1995 – July 1997 MG Kevin P. Byrnes July 1997 – October 1999 MG David D. McKiernan October 1999 – October 2001 MG Joe Peterson October 2001 – August 2003 MG Peter W. Chiarelli August 2003 – November 2005 MG Joseph F. Fil Jr. November 2005 – February 2008 BG Vincent K. Brooks (Acting Commander) Feb – April 2008 MG Daniel P. Bolger April 2008 – April 2010 MG Daniel B. Allyn April 2010 – June 2012 MG Anthony R. Ierardi June 2012 – March 2014 MG Michael A. Bills March 2014 - January 2016 MG John C. Thomson III January 2016 - October 2017 MG Paul T. Calvert October 2017 - September 2019 MG Jeffery Broadwater September 2019 - July 2021 MG John B. Richardson July 2021 – July 2023 MG Kevin D. Admiral July 2023 – August 2024 MG Thomas M. Feltey August 2024 – August 2026 BG Ethan J. Diven (Acting) August 2026 – Present
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