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The Commandant of the United States Marine Corps is the highest ranking officer of the United States Marine Corps and a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, reporting to the Secretary of the Navy but not to the Chief of Naval Operations. As with the other joint chiefs, the commandant is responsible for ensuring the organization and readiness of his respective service branch and for advising the President. However, as with the other joint chiefs, the commandant has no operational command authority.

"The Commandant is directly responsible to the Secretary of the Navy for the total performance of the Marine Corps. This includes the administration, discipline, internal organization, training, requirements, efficiency, and readiness of the service. The Commandant also is responsible for the operation of the Marine Corps material support system."^[1]

Since 1801, the home of the Commandant is located in Marine Barracks, Washington, D.C..

List of Commandants

General James T. Conway
34th and current Commandant

#	Name	Start of Tenure	End of Tenure
1.	Samuel Nicholas	November 28, 1775	August 27, 1783
2.	William W. Burrows	12 July, 1798	6 March, 1804
3.	Franklin Wharton	7 March, 1804	September 1, 1818
	Archibald Henderson (acting)	September 16, 1818	March 2, 1819
4.	Anthony Gale	3 March, 1819	8 October, 1820
5.	Archibald Henderson	October 17, 1820	January 6, 1859
6.	John Harris	January 7, 1859	1 May, 1864
7.	Jacob Zeilin	10 June, 1864	October 31, 1876
8.	Charles G. McCawley	November 1, 1876	January 29, 1891
9.	Charles Heywood	30 June, 1891	October 2, 1903
10.	George F. Elliott	October 3, 1903	November 30, 1910
11.	William P. Biddle	February 3, 1911	February 24, 1914
12.	George Barnett	February 25, 1914	30 June, 1920
13.	John A. Lejeune	1 July, 1920	4 March, 1929
14.	Wendall C. Neville	5 March, 1929	8 July, 1930
15.	Ben H. Fuller	9 July, 1930	February 28, 1934
16.	John H. Russell, Jr.	1 March, 1934	November 30, 1936
17.	Thomas Holcomb	December 1, 1936	December 31, 1943
18.	Alexander A. Vandegrift	January 1, 1944	December 31, 1947
19.	Clifton B. Cates	January 1, 1948	December 31, 1951
20.	Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr.	January 1, 1952	December 31, 1955
21.	Randolph M. Pate	January 1, 1956	December 31, 1959
22.	David M. Shoup	January 1, 1960	December 31, 1963
23.	Wallace M. Greene, Jr.	January 1, 1964	December 31, 1967
24.	Leonard F. Chapman, Jr.	January 1, 1968	December 31, 1971
25.	Robert Everton Cushman, Jr.	January 1, 1972	30 June, 1975
26.	Louis H. Wilson, Jr.	1 July, 1975	30 June, 1979
27.	Robert H. Barrow	1 July, 1979	30 June, 1983
28.	Paul X. Kelley	1 July, 1983	30 June, 1987
29.	Alfred M. Gray, Jr.	1 July, 1987	30 June, 1991
30.	Carl E. Mundy, Jr.	1 July, 1991	30 June, 1995
31.	Charles C. Krulak	1 July, 1995	30 June, 1999
32.	James L. Jones	1 July, 1999	January 12, 2003
33.	Michael W. Hagee	January 13, 2003	November 13, 2006
34.	James T. Conway	November 14, 2006	Incumbent

References

^ "Appendix A: How the Marines Are Organized", Marine Corps Concepts and Programs 2006. United States Marine Corps, page 252. Retrieved on 2007-05-06.

External links

Sec. 5043. Commandant of the Marine Corps. Title 10, United States Code (January 3, 2005). Retrieved on 2006-11-19.

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