National Headquarters
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Who Are We?
The American Legion was chartered by Congress in 1919 as a patriotic, mutual-help, war-time veterans organization. A community-service organization which now numbers nearly 3 million members -- men and women -- in nearly 15,000 American Legion Posts worldwide. These Posts are organized into 55 Departments -- one each for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, France, Mexico, and the Philippines.
The American Legion's national headquarters is in Indianapolis, Indiana, with additional offices in Washington, DC. In addition to thousands of volunteers serving in leadership and program implementation capacities in local communities to the Legion's standing national commissions and committees, the national organization has a regular full-time staff of about 300 employees.
Click here http://www.legion.org/ to visit The American Legion Headquarters' web site.
National Constitution and By-Laws
Article IV - Membership Eligibility, page 6
Article IX - Post Organization, page 8
Article III - Charters (Post), page 14
Article IV - Discipline of Post and Post Members, pages 14 and 15
Uniform Code of Procedure for the Revocation, Cancellation or Suspension of Post Charters, pages 22 through 26
