Daughters of the American Revolution

Nonprofit lineage organization

This article is about the women's organization. For the Grant Wood painting, see Daughters of Revolution.

Daughters of the American Revolution

National Society Daughters of the American Revolution

DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.

Abbreviation| NSDAR or DAR
Founded| October 11, 1890
Founders| Mary Smith Lockwood
Mary Desha
Ellen Hardin Walworth
Eugenia Washington
Founded at| Strathmore Arms
810 12th Street NW
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Type| Non-profit, lineage society, service organization
Focus| Historic preservation, education, patriotism, community service
Headquarters| Memorial Continental Hall
1776 D Street NW
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Membership| 190,000

President General

| Ginnie Sebastian Storage

Publication

| American Monthly (1892–2001)
American Spirit Magazine (2001–present)
Daughters Magazine (2001–present)
Affiliations| Children of the American Revolution
Website| dar.org

The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (often abbreviated as DAR or NSDAR) is a federally chartered lineage-based membership service organization for women who are directly descended from a patriot of the American Revolution.[1] A non-profit and non-political group, the organization promotes historical preservation, education and patriotism. Its membership is limited to direct lineal descendants of soldiers or others of the American Revolution era who aided the revolution and its subsequent war. Applicants must be at least 18 years of age. DAR has over 190,000 current members[2] in the United States and other countries.[3] The organization's motto was originally "Home and Country" until the twentieth century, when it was changed to "God, Home, and Country".[4][5][6]

## History

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In 1889, the centennial of President George Washington's inauguration was celebrated, and Americans looked for additional ways to recognize their past. Out of the renewed interest in United States history, numerous patriotic and preservation societies were founded. On July 13, 1890, after the Sons of the American Revolution refused to allow women to join their group, Mary Smith Lockwood published the story of patriot Hannah White Arnett in The Washington Post, asking, "Where will the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution place Hannah Arnett?"[7] On July 21 of that year, William O. McDowell, a great-grandson of Hannah White Arnett, published an article in The Washington Post offering to help form a society to be known as the Daughters of the American Revolution.[7] The first meeting of the society was held August 9, 1890.[7]

The Founders of the Daughters of the American Revolution sculpture honoring DAR's four founders

The first DAR chapter was organized on October 11, 1890,[8] at the Strathmore Arms (810 12th Street NW),[9] the home of Mary Smith Lockwood, one of the DAR's four co-founders. Other founders were Eugenia Washington, a great-grandniece of George Washington, Ellen Hardin Walworth, and Mary Desha. They had also held organizational meetings in August 1890.[10] Other attendees in October were Sons of the American Revolution members Registrar General Dr. George Brown Goode, Secretary General A. Howard Clark, William O. McDowell (SAR member #1), Wilson L. Gill (secretary at the inaugural meeting), and 18 other people.

The U.S. First Lady Caroline Lavina Scott Harrison, wife of President Benjamin Harrison, lent her prestige to the founding of DAR, and served as its first President General. Having initiated a renovation of the White House, she was interested in historic preservation. She helped establish the goals of DAR, which was incorporated by congressional charter in 1896.

President General Emily Nelson Ritchie McLean speaks at the NSDAR Convention in 1908.

In this same period, similar organizations as the Colonial Dames of America, the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, the General Society of Colonial Wars, the Mayflower Society, the National Mary Washington Memorial Association, Preservation of the Virginia Antiquities, United Daughters of the Confederacy, and Sons of Confederate Veterans were also founded. This was in addition to numerous fraternal and civic organizations flourishing in this period.

On March 3, 1913, the Woman Suffrage Procession concluded with a rally at Memorial Continental Hall, the society's national headquarters, as many members of DAR were active in the women's suffrage movement.[11]

## Structure

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DAR is structured into three Society levels: National Society, State Society, and Chapter. A State Society may be formed in any US State, the District of Columbia, or other countries that are home to at least one DAR Chapter. Chapters can be organized by a minimum of 12 members, or prospective members, who live in the same city or town.[12]

Each Society or Chapter is overseen by an executive board composed of a variety of officers. National level officers are: President General, First Vice President General, Chaplain General, Recording Secretary General, Corresponding Secretary General, Organizing Secretary General, Treasurer General, Registrar General, Historian General, Librarian General, Curator General, and Reporter General, to be designated as Executive Officers, and twenty-one Vice Presidents General. These officers are mirrored at the State and Chapter level, with a few changes: instead of a President General, States and Chapters have Regents, the twenty-one Vice Presidents General become one Second Vice Regent position, and the title of "General" is replaced by the title of either "State" or "Chapter". Example: First Vice President General becomes State First Vice Regent.[13]

## Historic programs

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A Daughters of the American Revolution tablet erected in 1926 at Old Allentown Cemetery in Allentown, Pennsylvania honoring Allentown patriots from the American Revolution who are buried in the cemetery

The DAR chapters raised funds to initiate a number of historic preservation and patriotic endeavors. They began a practice of installing markers at the graves of Revolutionary War veterans to indicate their service, and adding small flags at their gravesites on Memorial Day.

Other activities included commissioning and installing monuments to battles and other sites related to the War. The DAR recognized women patriots' contributions as well as those of soldiers. For instance, they installed a monument at the site of a spring where Polly Hawkins Craig and other women got water to use against flaming arrows, in the defense of Bryan Station (present-day Lexington, Kentucky).

In addition to installing markers and monuments, DAR chapters have purchased, preserved, and operated historic houses and other sites associated with the war.

### DAR Hospital Corps (Spanish–American War, 1898)

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In the 19th century, the U.S. military did not have an affiliated group of nurses to treat servicemembers during wartime. At the onset of the Spanish–American War in 1898, the U.S. Army appointed Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee as Acting Assistant Surgeon to select educated and experienced nurses to work for the Army. As Vice President of the DAR (who also served as NSDAR's first Librarian General), Dr. McGee founded the DAR Hospital Corps to vet applicants for nursing positions. The DAR Hospital Corps certified 1,081 nurses for service during the Spanish–American War. DAR later funded pensions for many of these nurses who did not qualify for government pensions.

Some of DAR-certified nurses were trained by the American Red Cross, and many others came from religious orders such as the Sisters of Charity, Sisters of Mercy, and Sisters of the Holy Cross.[14][15] These nurses served the U.S. Army in the U.S., Cuba, and the Philippines during the war. They paved the way for the eventual establishment—with Dr. McGee's assistance—of the Army Nurse Corps in 1901.[16]

### Textbook committees

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During the 1950s, statewide chapters of the DAR took an interest in reviewing school textbooks for their own standards of suitability. In Texas, the statewide "Committee on Investigations of Textbooks" issued a report in 1955 identifying 59 textbooks currently in Texas public schools that had "socialistic slant" or "other deficiencies" including references to "Soviet Russia" in the Encyclopedia Britannica.[17]

In 1959, the Mississippi chapter's "National Defense Committee" undertook a state lobbying effort that secured an amendment to state law which added "lay" members to the committee reviewing school textbooks. A DAR board member was appointed to one of the seats.[18]

## Contemporary DAR

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There are nearly 180,000 current members of the DAR in approximately 3,000 chapters across the United States and in several other countries. The organization describes itself as "one of the most inclusive genealogical societies"[19] in the United States, noting on its website that, "any woman 18 years or older—regardless of race, religion, or ethnic background—who can prove lineal descent from a patriot of the American Revolution, is eligible for membership".[19] The current DAR President General is Ginnie Sebastian Storage, a medical practice administrator from Virginia.

### Eligibility

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Membership in the DAR today is open to all women, regardless of race or religion, who can prove lineal bloodline descent from an ancestor who aided in achieving United States independence.[1] The National Society DAR is the final arbiter of the acceptability of the documentation of all applications for membership.

Qualifying participants in achieving independence include the following:

* Signatories of the United States Declaration of Independence;
* Military veterans of the American Revolutionary War, including State navies and militias, local militias, privateers, and French or Spanish soldiers and sailors who fought in the American theater of war to include the Island of Cuba;
* Civil servants of provisional or State governments, Continental Congress and State conventions and assemblies;
* Signers of Oath of Allegiance or Oath of Fidelity and Support;
* Participants in the Boston Tea Party or Edenton Tea Party;[20]
* Prisoners of war, refugees, and defenders of fortresses and frontiers; doctors and nurses who aided Revolutionary casualties; ministers; petitioners; and
* Others who gave material or patriotic support to the Revolutionary cause.[1]

DAR published a book, available online,[21] with the names of thousands of minority patriots, to enable family and historical research. Its online Genealogical Research System (GRS)[22] provides access to a database, and it is digitizing family Bibles to collect more information for research.

The organization has chapters in all 50 U.S. states and Washington, D.C.. DAR chapters outside the U.S. have been founded in Australia, Austria, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, and the United Kingdom. DAR is a governing organization within the Hereditary Society Community of the United States of America, and each DAR President General has served on HSC's board since its inception.

### Educational programs

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DAR says that they contribute over $1 million annually to support five schools that provide for a variety of special student needs.[23] The five supported schools are:

* Berry College in Mount Berry, Georgia
* Crossnore School in Crossnore, North Carolina
* Kate Duncan Smith DAR School in Grant, Alabama
* Hillside School in Marlborough, Massachusetts
* Hindman Settlement School in Hindman, Kentucky

Scholarships and funds are given to Native American youth at Chemawa Indian School in Salem, Oregon and Bacone College in Muskogee, Oklahoma.[23]

### Civic work

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Rhode Island's DAR chapter at the 2023 Gaspee Days Parade in Pawtuxet Village

DAR members participate in a variety of veteran and citizenship-oriented projects, including:

* Providing more than 200,000 hours of volunteer time annually to veterans in U.S. Veterans Administration hospitals and non-VA facilities
* Offering support to America's service personnel in current conflicts abroad through care packages, phone cards and other needed items
* Sponsoring special programs promoting the Constitution during its official celebration week of September 17–23
* Participating in naturalization ceremonies

### Exhibits and library at DAR headquarters

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DAR maintains a genealogical library at its headquarters in Washington, D.C., which provides guides for individuals doing family research. Its bookstore presents scholarship on United States and women's history.

Temporary exhibits in the galleries have featured women's arts and crafts, including items from the DAR's quilt and embroidery collections. Exhibit curators provide a social and historical context for girls' and women's arts in such exhibits, for instance, explaining practices of mourning reflected in certain kinds of embroidery samplers, as well as ideals expressed about the new republic. Permanent exhibits include American furniture, silver, and furnishings.

### Literacy promotion

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In 1989, the DAR established the NSDAR Literacy Promotion Committee, which coordinates the efforts of DAR volunteers to promote child and adult literacy. Volunteers teach English, tutor reading, prepare students for GED examinations, raise funds for literacy programs, and participate in many other ways.[24]

### American history essay contest

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DAR holds an annual national American history essay contest for students in 5th through 8th grades. A different topic is selected each year. Essays are judged "for historical accuracy, adherence to topic, organization of materials, interest, originality, spelling, grammar, punctuation, and neatness." The contest is conducted locally by DAR chapters. Chapter winners compete against each other by region and nationally; national winners receive a monetary award.[25]

### Scholarships

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DAR awards $150,000 annually in scholarships to high school graduates, and music, law, nursing, and medical school students. Only two of the 20 scholarships offered are restricted to DAR members or their descendants.[26]

### Debutante balls

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Certain chapters of the DAR partner with the Sons of the American Revolution to host debutante balls where daughters of members are presented to society as debutantes and sons of members are presented as "patriots".[27] Members of the Children of the American Revolution may also be presented.[27] The Pennsylvania State Society of the DAR hosts the annual Constitution Debutante Ball in Valley Forge.[28] In Lafayette, Louisiana, the Galvez Chapter of the DAR hosts the annual George Washington Ball, commemorating the birthday of George Washington.[29][30] Young women in the Children of the American Revolution who are either eighteen years of age or a senior in high school may be presented as debutantes at the Virginia DAR State Conference in Richmond.[31] Debutantes are also presented at the Georgia DAR State Conference.[32]

## Diversity and inclusion

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### African Americans and DAR

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On December 3, 1896, Eunice Russ Ames Davis, a multiracial abolitionist and founding member of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, joined the Old South Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.[33] She was of African, Narragansett Indian, Penobscot, and European ancestry and the daughter of American revolutionary Prince Ames.[34] She was presented with a gold spoon by the DAR, as a "Real Daughter of the Revolution", on her 97th birthday.[34]

In 1932, DAR adopted a rule excluding African American musicians from performing at DAR Constitution Hall in response to complaints by some members against "mixed seating", as both black and white people were attracted to concerts of black artists. This was during the time when Washington, D.C. was a racially segregated city.[35] In 1939, they denied permission for Marian Anderson to perform a concert at the hall. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, a DAR member, resigned from the organization in protest.

Jillian Patricia Pirtle, soprano and CEO of the Marian Anderson Museum and Historical Society, performing at DAR Constitution Hall in 2023.

In her letter to the DAR, Roosevelt wrote, "I am in complete disagreement with the attitude taken in refusing Constitution Hall to a great artist...You had an opportunity to lead in an enlightened way and it seems to me that your organization has failed." African-American author Zora Neale Hurston criticized Roosevelt's refusal to condemn the Board of Education of Washington, D.C.'s simultaneous decision to exclude Anderson from singing at the segregated white Central High School. Hurston declared "to jump the people responsible for racial bias would be to accuse and expose the accusers themselves. The District of Columbia has no home rule; it is controlled by congressional committees, and Congress at the time was overwhelmingly Democratic. It was controlled by the very people who were screaming so loudly against the DAR. To my way of thinking, both places should have been denounced, or neither."[36]

As the controversy grew, American media overwhelmingly backed Anderson's right to sing. The Philadelphia Tribune, an African American newspaper in Philadelphia, wrote, "A group of tottering old ladies, who don't know the difference between patriotism and putridism, have compelled the gracious First Lady to apologize for their national rudeness." The Richmond Times-Dispatch wrote, "In these days of racial intolerance so crudely expressed in the Third Reich, an action such as the D.A.R.'s ban ... seems all the more deplorable." At Eleanor Roosevelt's behest, President Roosevelt and Walter White, then-executive secretary of the NAACP, and Anderson's manager, impresario Sol Hurok arranged an open-air concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial with a dignified and stirring rendition of "America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee)". The event attracted a crowd of more than 75,000 in addition to a national radio audience of millions.[37]

In 1952, DAR reversed its "white performers only" policy.[38]

Commemorative plaque honoring Lena Santos Ferguson at DAR Constitution Hall.

In 1977, Karen Batchelor Farmer (now Karen Batchelor) from Detroit, was admitted to the Ezra Parker Chapter in Royal Oak, Michigan as the first known DAR African American member.[39] Batchelor's admission as the first known African American member of DAR sparked international interest after it was featured in a story on page one of The New York Times.[40]

In 1984, Lena Lorraine Santos Ferguson, a retired school secretary, was denied membership in a Washington, D.C. chapter of the DAR because she was Black, according to a report by The Washington Post.[41] Ferguson met the lineage requirements and could trace her ancestry to Jonah Gay, a white man who fought in Maine.[41] Sarah M. King, the President General of the DAR, told The Washington Post that DAR's chapters have autonomy in determining members,[41] saying "Being black is not the only reason why some people have not been accepted into chapters. There are other reasons: divorce, spite, neighbors' dislike. I would say being black is very far down the line....There are a lot of people who are troublemakers. You wouldn't want them in there because they could cause some problems."[41] After King's comments were reported in a page one story, outrage erupted, and the City Council threatened to revoke the DAR's real estate tax exemption. King quickly qualified her comments, saying that Ferguson should have been admitted, and that her application had been handled "inappropriately". DAR changed its bylaws to bar discrimination "on the basis of race or creed." In addition, King announced a resolution to recognize "the heroic contributions of black patriots in the American Revolution."[42]

Since the mid-1980s, the DAR has supported a project to identify African Americans, Native Americans, and individuals of mixed race who were patriots of the American Revolution, expanding their recognition beyond soldiers.[43]

In 2004, Maria Williams-Cole and Arleathia Carter Williams became the first two African-American members of the DAR in Prince George's County, Maryland.[44]

In 2008, DAR published Forgotten Patriots: African-American and American Indian Patriots in the Revolutionary War.[21][43] In 2007, the DAR posthumously honored Mary Hemings Bell, an individual enslaved by Thomas Jefferson, as a "Patriot of the Revolution." Because of Hemings Bell's declaration by the DAR to be a Patriot, all of her female descendants qualify for membership in the DAR.[45]

In 2018, Reisha Raney became the first black woman elected to serve as a DAR state officer in Maryland.[46] She previously served on the national level of the organization as the vice chairwoman of the membership committee division.[46] Raney founded Daughter Dialogues, a podcast documenting the narratives of black members of the DAR, which launched on July 1, 2021.[46][47] In September 2018, Sonja Addison, Stephannie Addison-Mudd, and Brooke Addison Moore became the first African-American members of the Fauquier Court House Chapter of the DAR in Fauquier County, Virginia.[48]

In June 2019, Wilhelmena Rhodes Kelly became the first African American elected to the DAR National Board of Management when she was installed as New York State Regent.[49]

In 2022, Sheryl Sims became the first African-American woman to join the Nelly Custis Chapter of the DAR in Alexandria, Virginia.[50] In September 2022, Sharon Fort became the first African-American woman to join the DAR in Arkansas.[51] In December 2022, DAR donated $150,000 to the Marian Anderson Museum to help with restoration costs following flood damage to the building in 2020.[52]

In October 2023, Johnette Gordon-Weaver became the first African-American member of the Williamsburg chapter of the DAR.[53] Gordon Weaver is a descendant of Anthony Roberts, the first free African-American patriot recognized by the organization at the national level.[53]

In 2024, Regina Lynch-Hudson became the first woman of color to join the Greenlee Chapter of the DAR in Old Fort, North Carolina, and the first black female descendent of Colonel John Carson to join the national society.[54][55]

### Transgender women

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In June 2023, at the 132nd DAR Continental Congress, the organization voted to add an amendment to their bylaws that states the chapters "may not discriminate against an eligible applicant based on race, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law." DAR spokesperson Bren Landon told Newsweek that the amendment "provides additional non-discrimination language" that protects the society's tax-exempt status. She also told Newsweek that "the new language does not change the criteria for membership," and that "DAR's longstanding membership policy remains unchanged since our founding in 1890."[56]

At Continental Congress, Jennifer Mease, a delegate and Regent of the Liberty Bell Chapter in Pennsylvania, inquired whether chapters could vote against admitting a new member "whose birth certificate has been altered by their state to indicate they are female even though they were born a male." President General Wright responded to Mease's inquiry by stating "if a person's certified birth certificate states 'female,' they are eligible for membership, and your chapter cannot change that.. if their birth certificate says they are a female, and you vote against them based on their protected class, it's discrimination."[56] In an official newsletter released after the congress, Wright wrote, "some have asked if this means a transgender woman can join DAR or if this means that DAR chapters have previously welcomed transgender women. The answer to both questions is, yes."[57] A retired United States Air Force colonel, who is a transgender woman, joined the Daughters of the American Revolution in New Jersey in 2022.[58]

## Notable members

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Main article: List of Daughters of the American Revolution members

Since its founding, many notable women have been members of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Six former First Ladies of the United States were members of the DAR: Caroline Harrison, Sarah Childress Polk, Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosalynn Carter, Barbara Bush, and Laura Bush.[59] Two Second Ladies of the United States have also been members, Letitia Stevenson and Cornelia Cole Fairbanks. Other notable public figures and federal-level politicians include U.S. Senators Tammy Duckworth, Elizabeth Dole, and Margaret Chase Smith, U.S. Congresswomen Alice Robertson and Katherine G. Langley, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, and U.S. District Court judge Ada Brown.[60][61] Prominent state politicians and public officials have also been members of the DAR, including Kentucky Governor Martha Layne Collins, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey, and Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Illinois state representative Sarah Bond Hanley, West Virginia state representative Mary Martha Presley Merritt, Washington state representative Gene Bradford, Iowan first lady Anna Matilda Larrabee, Kentucky Second Lady and Department of Veterans Affairs Commissioner Heather French Henry, Kentucky Treasurer and Secretary of State Emma Guy Cromwell, Illinois first lady MK Pritzker, and North Carolinian first ladies Mary McKinley Daves Ellis, Fanny Yarborough Bickett, Alice Willson Broughton, Mildred Stafford Cherry, Eleanor Kearny Carr, and Margaret Gardner Hoey.[62][63][64] Other notable DAR members include officers in the U.S. Armed Forces, such as Brigadier General Wilma Vaught, Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, Rear Admiral Donna L. Crisp, Colonel Westray Battle Long, and Major Almyra Maynard Watson, and prominent entertainers such as the actresses Ginger Rogers, Lillian Gish, and Bo Derek and the singer Rosanne Cash.[65][59][66]

## List of DAR presidents general

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The presidents general of the society have been:[67][68]

* Caroline Scott Harrison, First DAR President General

* Mrs. Julius Young Talmadge Named DAR President General

* Silver Arrow, the symbol of the Dillon administration in the form of a pin.

Number | President General | Years in office | State of membership

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1  | Caroline Scott Harrison, (Mrs. Benjamin) | 1890–1892, Died in office | Indiana
1.5 | Mary Virginia Ellet Cabell, (Mrs. William D.) | 1892–1893, Vice President Presiding | Virginia
2 | Letitia Green Stevenson, (Mrs. Adlai E.) | 1893–1895 | Illinois
3 | Mary Parke McFerson Foster, (Mrs. John W.) | 1895–1896 | Indiana
4 | Letitia Green Stevenson, (Mrs. Adlai E.) | 1896–1898 | Illinois
5 | Mary Margaretta Fryer Manning, (Mrs. Daniel) | 1898–1899, & 1899–1901 | New York
6 | Cornelia Cole Fairbanks, (Mrs. Charles W.) | 1901–1903 & 1903–1905 | Indiana
7 | Emily Nelson Ritchie McLean, (Mrs. Donald) | 1905–1907 & 1907–1909 | New York
8 | Julia Green Scott, (Mrs. Matthew T.) | 1909–1911 & 1911–1913 | Illinois
9 | Daisy Allen Story, (Mrs. William Cumming) | 1913–1915 & 1915–1917 | New York
10 | Sarah Elizabeth Mitchell Guernsey, (Mrs. George Thatcher) | 1917–1920 | Kansas
11 | Anne Belle Rogers Minor, (Mrs. George Maynard) | 1920–1923 | Connecticut
12 | Lora Haines Cook, (Mrs. Anthony Wayne) | 1923–1926 | Pennsylvania
13 | Grace Lincoln Brosseau, (Mrs. Hall) | 1926–1929 | Connecticut
14 | Edith Irwin Hobart, (Mrs. Lowell Fletcher) | 1929–1932 | Ohio
15 | Edith Scott Magna, (Mrs. Russell William) | 1932–1935 | Massachusetts
16 | Florence Hague Becker, (Mrs. William A.) | 1935–1938 | New Jersey
17 | Sarah Corbin Robert, (Mrs. Henry Martyn Jr.) | 1938–1941 | Maryland
18 | Helena R. Pouch, (Mrs. William H.) | 1941–1944 | New York
19 | May Erwin Talmadge, (Mrs. Julius Young) | 1944–1947 | Georgia
20 | Estella A. O'Byrne, (Mrs. Roscoe C.) | 1947–1950 | Indiana
21 | Marguerite Courtright Patton, (Mrs. James B.) | 1950–1953 | Ohio
22 | Gertrude Sprague Carraway | 1953–1956 | North Carolina
23 | Allene Wilson Groves, (Mrs. Frederic A.) | 1956–1959 | Missouri
24 | Doris Pike White, (Mrs. Ashmead) | 1959–1962 | Maine
25 | Marion Moncure Duncan, (Mrs. Robert V. H.) | 1962–1965 | Virginia
26 | Adele Woodhouse Erb Sullivan, (Mrs. William Henry Jr.) | 1965–1968 | New York
27 | Betty Newkirk Seimes, (Mrs. Erwin Frees) | 1968–1971 | Delaware
28 | Eleanor Washington Spicer, (Mrs. Donald) | 1971–1974 | California
29 | Sara Roddis Jones, (Mrs. Henry Stewart) | 1974–1975 | Wisconsin
30 | Jane Farwell Smith, (Mrs. Wakelee Rawson) | 1975–1977 | Illinois
31 | Jeannette Osborn Baylies, (Mrs. George Upham) | 1977–1980 | New York
32 | Patricia Walton Shelby, (Mrs. Richard Denny) | 1980–1983 | Mississippi
33 | Sarah McKelley King, (Mrs. Walter Hughey) | 1983–1986 | Tennessee
34 | Ann Davison Duffie Fleck, (Mrs. Raymond Franklin) | 1986–1989 | Massachusetts
35 | Marie Hirst Yochim, (Mrs. Eldred Martin) | 1989–1992 | Virginia
36 | Wayne Garrison Blair, (Mrs. Donald Shattuck) | 1992–1995 | Ohio
37 | Dorla Eaton Kemper, (Mrs. Charles Keil) | 1995–1998 | California
38 | Georgane Ferguson Love (Easley), (Mrs. Dale Kelly) | 1998–2001 | Mississippi
39 | Linda Tinker Watkins* | 2001–2004 | Tennessee
40 | Presley Merritt Wagoner | 2004–2007 | West Virginia
41 | Linda Gist Calvin | 2007–2010 | California
42 | Merry Ann T. Wright | 2010–2013 | New York
43 | Lynn Forney Young | 2013–2016 | Texas
44 | Ann Turner Dillon | 2016–2019 | Colorado
45 | Denise Doring VanBuren | 2019–2022 | New York
46 | Pamela Rouse Wright | 2022–2025 | Texas
47 | Ginnie Sebastian Storage | 2025–present | Virginia

*Note: During the Watkins administration, the President General and other National Officers began to be referred to by their own first names, rather than their husbands'.

## Honors

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Yale Club plaque

A memorial to the Daughters of the American Revolution's four founders at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., was dedicated on April 17, 1929. It was sculpted by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, a DAR member.[69][70]

## In popular culture

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In 1932, American artist Grant Wood painted the satirical painting Daughters of Revolution after a local chapter of the DAR complained about his use of German glass in a commission he created for a veterans memorial.[71]

In the American comedy-drama television series Gilmore Girls, the character Emily Gilmore (portrayed by Kelly Bishop) is a regent of a chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Her granddaughter, Rory Gilmore (portrayed by Alexis Bledel), is presented to society at a DAR debutante ball and later joins the organization.[72] In the show's 2016 revival, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, Emily Gilmore resigns from the DAR.[73]

In the American medical drama television series Grey's Anatomy, the character Miranda Bailey (portrayed by Chandra Wilson) mentions in the third season episode Scars and Souvenirs that she received a DAR scholarship in her youth. In the fourth season of the American political drama television series The West Wing, in the episode Privateers, First Lady Abbey Bartlet (portrayed by Stockard Channing) is questioned on the validity of her DAR membership by another member.[74]

## See also

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* Society portal

* The Hereditary Society Community of the United States of America
* Children of the American Revolution
* National Society Daughters of the American Colonists
* Colonial Dames of America
* The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America
* National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century
* Old Stock Americans
* Society of the Cincinnati
* Sons of the American Revolution
* Sons of the Revolution
* Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
* The United Empire Loyalists Association of Canada
* United States Daughters of 1812

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### Works cited

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* National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (1991). Centennial History of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, 1889–1989. Nashville, Tennessee: Turner Publishing Company. ISBN 9781563110283.

## Further reading

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Independent accounts

* Anderson, Peggy. The Daughters (1972)
* Bailey, Diana L. American Treasure: The Enduring Spirit of the DAR, Walsworth Publishing Company (2007)
* Julie Des Jardins, Women and the Historical Enterprise in America: Gender, Race, and the Politics of Memory, 1880–1945, University of North Carolina Press (2003)
* Strayer, Martha. The D.A.R.: An Informal History, Washington, DC. Public Affairs Press (1958) (critically reviewed by Gilbert Steiner as covering personalities but not politics, Review, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, v.320, "Highway Safety and Traffic Control" (Nov. 1958), pp. 148–149.)
* Wendt, Simon. The Daughters of the American Revolution and Patriotic Memory in the Twentieth Century (U Press of Florida, 2020) online review
* Sara Wallace Goodman (2020) "'Good American citizens': a text-as-data analysis of citizenship manuals for immigrants, 1921–1996." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

DAR-related

* Hunter, Ann Arnold. A Century of Service: The Story of the DAR. Washington, DC: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (1991).
* Simkovich, Patricia Joy. Indomitable Spirit: The Life of Ellen Hardin Walworth, Washington, DC: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (2001). (The life story of Ellen Hardin Walworth, one of the NSDAR founders.)
* 125 Years of Devotion to America, Washington, DC: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. DAR publication that includes reflections, prayers and ceremonial excerpts to capture material about the DAR and its members' service.

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