About
The Sons of the American Revolution was incorporated on January 17, 1890, in Connecticut and later chartered by the United States Congress on June 9, 1906. Prior to this date a number of state societies were formed in the 1880’s. These were led by The Sons of Revolutionary Sires organized July 4, 1876, in San Francisco. The first Congress of the National Society was held in Louisville, Kentucky on April 30, 1890, which was the 100th anniversary of George Washington’s taking the oath of office of President of the United States.
The Arizona State Society was founded in 1896 and is older than the State of Arizona itself.
Our state organization is made up of 6 chapters totaling 500 active members who are direct descendants of Americans who fought in the American Revolution.
There is no better patriotic, social and educational organization you can join to honor your ancestors, America’s history and to enjoy like-minded men in comradeship.
Our Purpose
The Sons of the American Revolution honors our Revolutionary War patriot ancestors by promoting patriotism, serving our communities, and educating and inspiring future generations about the founding principles of our Country.
We do this by:
- Perpetuating the memory of Revolutionary War Patriots.
- Promoting fellowship among their descendants.
- Inspiring the community with a reverence for the principles of government founded by our forefathers.
- Encouraging historical research of the American Revolution.
- Preserving the records of Revolutionary War Patriots.
- Marking the locations of the Revolution events and its soldiers.
- Celebrating anniversaries of the Revolution.
- Fostering true patriotism.
- Maintaining and extending institutions of American freedom.
- Carrying out the purposes of the Preamble of the Constitution.
- Following the injunctions of Washington’s farewell address to the American people.
What we do
- Present the colors at public events with our colonial uniformed color guard.
- Honor individuals for outstanding and unusual patriotic achievement on a national, regional and local level.
- Honor persons for outstanding bravery and self sacrifice in the face of imminent danger.
- Honor members of the United States Congress for outstanding service to the nation.
- Honor outstanding high school students annually with the presentation of a Good Citizenship Award.
- Honor outstanding Junior and Senior ROTC cadets annually with the presentation of the ROTC Award.
- Honor Law Enforcement officials for outstanding service with a Law Enforcement Award.
- Select an outstanding Eagle Scout annually at the branch, state and national level. The national winner receives a college scholarship.
- Honor an outstanding student for winning the Knight Essay Contest.
- Assist veterans in Veterans Hospitals.
- Conduct a national historical orations contest annually.
- Conduct a national youth video contest annually.
- Sponsor Boy Scout troops and chapters of the Children of the American Revolution.
- Place SAR Markers at the grave sites of Revolutionary War Patriots and SAR Members.
- Commemorate Revolutionary War Patriots with appropriate ceremonies.
- Participate in new citizenship swearing-in ceremonies.
- Observe patriotic anniversaries.
- Collaborate with the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Children of the American Revolution in the promotion of patriotism.
ARIZONA SAR PRESIDENTS
2026-Robert L. (Jack) Berry (100th)
2024-26: Richard R. (Rick) Spargo (99th)
2022-24: Robert S. Hoover (98th)
2021-22: William L. Baran, Ph.D (97th)
2020-21: Dennis Kavanaugh, Esq. (96th)
2019-20: George A. Stickney (95th)
2018-19: James Skaggs (94th)
2017-18: Steven C. Monez (93rd)
2016-17: Stephen J. Miller (92nd)
2015-16: George Lipphardt (91st)
2013-15: Arthur Cantrall (90th)
2011-13: A. Ruddell Byrd III, MD (89th)
2010-11: Walter G. Seaton (88th)
2009-10: Albert I. Niemeyer (87th)
2008-09: Louis M. Newton MD (86th)
2007-08: William R. Aurand (85th)
2006-07: Richard Zeilman (84th)
2005-06: Warren M. Alter (83rd)
2004-05: Daniel H. Heller MD (82nd)
2003-04: Charles H. Aurand Jr. (81st)
2001-03: J. Michael Jones (80th)
2000-01: Clifford K. Platt II (79th)
1999-00: LCDR Lawrence D. Nelson (78th)
1998-99: Ronald Arthur McCreery (77th)
1997-98: LCDR Paul E. Brownell, USN (76th)
1996-97: LTC Frank Clinton O’Bannon Jr. (75th)
1995-96: George Robert Reece (74th)
1994-95: Dr. Donald Karl Smith Dale (73rd)
1993-94: Ronald Arthur McCreery (72nd
1992-93: Kenneth Glyn Hales (71t)
1991-92: Robert Critchfield Bohannan Jr. (70th)
1990-91: Wilbur DeLancey Lockwood Jr. (69th)
1989-90: Charles Jackson Meek (68th)
1988-89: Ralph Jackson (67th)
1987-88: Elwess Foster Dyer (66th)
1986-87: John Milton Durham (65th)
1985-86: James Wallace Polk (64th)
1984-85: John A. Williams (63rd)
1983-84: Charles Norman Flanders JD (62nd)
1982-83: Lynn Deahofe Wilson Ph.D (61st)
1981-82: COL Robert Thomas Cunningham (60th)
1980-81: Edgar Charles Frankenfield (59th)
1979-80: COL Hugh C. Belden (58th)
1978-79: Louis Bernard Schmidt (57th)
1977-78: Samuel G. Conner (56th)
1976-77: Munford Kenneth Peyton (55th)
1975-76: George Barton Peck (54th)
1974-75: Laurence Russell Gardner (53rd)
1973-74: Herbert Hiland Stiffler (52nd)
1972-73: William Barkley Lyon, DD (51st)
1971-72: James Edsall Serven (50th)
1970-71: Frederick W. Heineman (49th)
1969-70 John Henley Eversole (48th)
1968-69: Warren Arthur Donaldson (47th)
1967-68: William Brooks Steen (46th)
1966-67: John V. Fels (45th)
1964-66: Ralph Malcolm Pabst (44th)
1963-64: George Hern Wood (43rd)
1962-63: John Henry Eversole (42nd)
1959-62: Weldon Perry Shofstall (41st)
1957-59: Malcom Wesley Bayley (40th)
1956-57: Louis J. Taylor (39th)
1954-56: Joseph Bennett Love (38th)
1953-54: Francis J. Ryley (37th)
1951-53: Avery Fincher Olney (36th)
1947-51: William George Read Mullan (35th)
1943-47: Wyatt Wagoner Jones (34th)
1941-43: Corydon Robert Dusenberry (33rd)
1934-41: Dr. Gurdon Montage Butler (32nd)
1933-34: None
1932-33: None
1931-32: None
1930-31: Arthur Gibbons Hulett (31st)
1929-30: Charles Averett Carson Jr. (30th)
1928-29: Gurdon Montague Butler (29th)
1927-28: Wirt Beecher Twitch (28th)
1926-27: Howard Sawyer Reed (27th)
1925-26: Everett E. Ellinwood (26th)
1924-25: James Rockwood Jenkins (25th)
1923-24: Harold Baxter (24th)
1922-23: Lloyd Bennett Christy (23rd)
1921-22: H. B. Wilkinson (22nd)
1920-21: Frederick Wellington Perkins (21st)
1919-20: Clay Finson Leonard (20th)
1917-19: Dwight B. Heard (19th)
1916-17: John Dennett (18th)
1915-16: Roy Eccles Thomas (17th)
1914-15: Rt. Rev. J. W. Atwood (16th)
1913-14: Joseph L. B. Alexander (15th)
1912-13: Mark Alfred Rodgers (14th)
1911-12: Howard Sawyer Reed (13th)
1910-11: Francis Eppes Shine (12th)
1909-10: Isaac Taft Stoddard (11th)
1908-09: Everett E. Ellinwood (10th)
1907-08: George Dorr Christy (9th)
1906-07: Richard E. Sloan (8th)
1905-06: Ricardo Edsall Miner (7th)
1904-05: William Henry Robinson (6th)
1903-04: John Wix Thomas (5th)
1902-03: Prosper Powell Parker (4th)
1901-02: Lewis Wilfred Coggins (3rd)
1899-01: Lewis H. Halsey (2nd)
1896-99: Herbert Fulwiler Robinson (1st)
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