List of commanders of 1st Cavalry Division (United States)

This is a list of commanders of the US 1st Cavalry Division of the United States Army.


 * MG Robert L. Howze September 1921 – June 1925
 * BG Joseph C. Castner June 1925 – January 1926
 * MG Edwin B. Winans January 1926 – October 1927
 * BG Samuel D. Rockenbach October 1927 – November 1927
 * MG George Van Horn Moseley November 1927 – September 1929
 * BG Charles J. Symmonds September 1929 – October 1930
 * BG George C. Barnhardt October 1930 – December 1930
 * MG Ewing E. Booth December 1930 – March 1932
 * BG Walter Cowen Short March 1932 – March 1933
 * MG Frank R. McCoy March 1933 – October 1933
 * BG Walter Cowen Short October 1933 – April 1934
 * BG Hamilton S. Hawkins III April 1934 – September 1936
 * BG Francis L. Parker September 1936 – October 1936
 * MG Ben Lear October 1936 – November 1938
 * MG Kenyon A. Joyce November 1938 – October 1940
 * MG Robert C. Richardson Jr. October 1940 – February 1941
 * MG Innis Palmer Swift February 1941 – August 1944
 * MG Verne D. Mudge August 1944 – February 1945
 * BG Hugh F. T. Hoffman February 1945 – July 1945
 * MG William C. Chase August 1945 – February 1949
 * BG William B. Bradford February 1949 – February 1949
 * MG John M. Devine February 1949 – August 1949
 * BG Henry I. Hodes August 1949 – September 1949
 * MG Hobart R. Gay September 1949 – February 1951
 * MG Charles D. Palmer February 1951 – July 1951
 * MG Thomas L. Harrold July 1951 – March 1952
 * MG Arthur G. Trudeau March 1952 – March 1953
 * BG William J. Bradley March 1953 – April 1953
 * MG Joseph P. Cleland May 1953 – June 1953
 * MG Armistead D. Mead June 1953 – December 1954
 * BG Orlando C. Troxel Jr. December 1954 – May 1955
 * MG Edward J. McGaw May 1955 – November 1956
 * MG Edwin H. J. Carns November 1956 – August 1957
 * MG Ralph W. Zwicker October 1957 – January 1958
 * MG George E. Bush January 1958 – April 1959
 * MG Charles E. Beauchamp April 1959 – May 1960
 * MG Charles G. Dodge May 1960 – December 1960
 * MG Frank H. Britton December 1960 – July 1961
 * MG James K. Woolnough July 1961 – September 1962
 * BG D.C. Clayman September 1962 – October 1962
 * MG Clifton F. Von Kann October 1962 – June 1963
 * BG Charles P. Brown June 1963 – August 1963
 * MG Charles Leonard August 1963 – October 1964
 * MG Hugh Exton October 1964 – June 1965
 * MG Harry W. O. Kinnard July 1965 – May 1966
 * MG John Norton May 1966 – March 1967
 * MG John J. Tolson March 1967 – August 1968
 * BG Richard L. Irby August 1968 – August 1968
 * MG George I. Forsythe August 1968 – April 1969
 * MG E. B. Roberts May 1969 – May 1970
 * MG George W. Casey Sr. May 1970 – July 1970
 * MG George W. Putnam August 1970 – May 1971
 * MG James C. Smith May 1971 – January 1973
 * MG Robert M. Shoemaker January 1973 – February 1975
 * MG Julius W. Becton Jr. February 1975 – November 1976
 * MG W. Russell Todd November 1976 – November 1978
 * MG Paul S. Williams Jr. November 1978 – November 1980
 * MG Richard D. Lawrence November 1980 – July 1982
 * MG Andrew P. Chambers July 1982 – June 1984
 * MG Michael J. Conrad June 1984 – June 1986
 * MG John J. Yeosock June 1986 – May 1988
 * MG William F. Streeter May 1988 – July 1990
 * MG John H. Tilelli Jr. July 1990 – July 1992
 * MG Wesley K. Clark July 1992 – March 1994
 * MG Eric K. Shinseki March 1994 – July 1995
 * MG Leon J. LaPorte July 1995 – July 1997
 * MG Kevin P. Byrnes July 1997 – October 1999
 * MG David D. McKiernan October 1999 – October 2001
 * MG Joe Peterson October 2001 – August 2003
 * MG Peter W. Chiarelli August 2003 – November 2005
 * MG Joseph F. Fil Jr. November 2005 – February 2008
 * BG Vincent K. Brooks (Acting Commander) Feb – April 2008
 * MG Daniel P. Bolger April 2008 – April 2010
 * MG Daniel B. Allyn April 2010 – June 2012
 * MG Anthony R. Ierardi June 2012 – March 2014
 * MG Michael A. Bills March 2014 - January 2016
 * MG John C. Thomson III January 2016 - October 2017
 * MG Paul T. Calvert October 2017 - September 2019
 * MG Jeffery Broadwater September 2019 - July 2021
 * MG John B. Richardson July 2021 – July 2023
 * MG Kevin D. Admiral July 2023 - Present