| Barack Obama |
None |
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| George W. Bush |
Texas Air National Guard |
First Lieutenant |
Stateside service during Vietnam War (1968-1973). |
| Bill Clinton |
None |
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| George H.W. Bush |
United States Naval Reserve |
Lieutenant |
World War II (1942-1945) |
| Ronald Reagan |
United States Army Reserve, United States Army Air Corps |
Captain |
Stateside service during World War II (1942-1945); Army Reserve (1937-1942) |
| Jimmy Carter |
United States Navy |
Lieutenant |
World War II at the United States Naval Academy Sea duty and stateside service 1946-1953 during the Korean War |
| Gerald Ford |
United States Naval Reserve |
Lieutenant Commander |
World War II (1942-1945; discharged in 1946) |
| Richard Nixon |
United States Naval Reserve |
Commander |
World War II (1942-1945) |
| Lyndon B. Johnson |
United States Naval Reserve |
Lieutenant Commander |
World War II |
| John F. Kennedy |
United States Navy |
Lieutenant |
World War II (1941-1945) |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower |
United States Army |
General of the Army |
Stateside service during World War I. Served as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II (1942-1945). Entire career spanned from 1915 until 1952. |
| Harry S Truman |
United States Army, United States Army Reserve |
Colonel |
World War I (1917-1918); was then transferred to the army reserve and discharged in 1927. |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Veteran Corps of Artillery of New York |
Commander in Chief {As New York Governor} |
FDR, however, did serve as Assistant Secretary of the Navy from 1913-1920 and was a witness to 1918 fighting. In a post World War I publication "Harvard in the War" he is listed among the Harvard's contributors to World War I effort. |
| Herbert Hoover |
None |
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| Calvin Coolidge |
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts |
Commander-in-Chief as Massachusetts Governor |
None |
| Warren G. Harding |
None |
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| Woodrow Wilson |
None |
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| William Howard Taft |
None |
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| Theodore Roosevelt |
United States Army |
Colonel |
Spanish-American War – only U.S. President to receive the Medal of Honor (awarded posthumously in 2001) |
| William McKinley |
United States Army |
Brevet Major |
American Civil War |
| Benjamin Harrison |
United States Army |
Brigadier General |
American Civil War |
| Grover Cleveland |
Veteran Corps of Artillery of New York |
Commander in Chief {As New York Governor} |
None |
| Chester A. Arthur |
New York State Militia |
Brigadier General |
Served as quartermaster general before and during the American Civil War (1858-1865). |
| James Garfield |
United States Army |
Major General |
American Civil War (1861-1863; left the army to serve in the United States House of Representatives). |
| Rutherford B. Hayes |
United States Army |
Major General |
American Civil War |
| Ulysses S. Grant |
United States Army |
General of the Army |
Mexican-American War and American Civil War; served 1843-1854 and 1861-1868. |
| Andrew Johnson |
United States Army |
Brigadier General |
American Civil War; served as Military Governor of Tennessee in 1862; was Vice President in 1865. |
| Abraham Lincoln |
Illinois State Militia |
Captain, Private |
Black Hawk War |
| James Buchanan |
Pennsylvania State Militia |
Private |
War of 1812 |
| Franklin Pierce |
United States Army |
Brigadier General |
Mexican-American War |
| Millard Fillmore |
New York State Militia |
Major |
American Civil War |
| Zachary Taylor |
United States Army |
Major General |
War of 1812, Black Hawk War, Second Seminole War, Mexican-American War; entire career spanned from 1808 until 1848. |
| James K. Polk |
Tennessee State Militia |
Colonel |
None |
| John Tyler |
United States Army |
Captain |
War of 1812 |
| William Henry Harrison |
United States Army |
Major General |
Northwest Indian War, War of 1812 |
| Martin Van Buren |
Veteran Corps of Artillery of new York |
Commander-in-Chief {as New York Governor} |
None |
| Andrew Jackson |
Continental Army, United States Army |
General |
American Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Creek War, First Seminole War |
| John Quincy Adams |
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None; however he was a witness to Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775 and reportedly was a non-participant in a Naval Battle between a British Ship and a US ship he was on during the American Revolution. |
| James Monroe |
Continental Army |
Major |
American Revolutionary War |
| James Madison |
Virginia Militia |
Colonel |
American Revolutionary War |
| Thomas Jefferson |
Virginia Militia |
Commander |
None; during Raid by Banastre Tarleton he was forced to flee rather than be captured |
| John Adams |
None |
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Adams served as chairman of the Continental Congress's Board of War (1776-1777), making him the simultaneous equivalent of today's Secretary of Defense and Chairman of Senate Armed Services Committee; reportably was a near-participant in a Naval Battle between a British Ship and a US ship he was on during the American Revolution. |
| George Washington |
Virginia Militia, Virginia Regiment Continental Army |
General of the Armies |
French and Indian War, American Revolutionary War |
