F. Anderson Morse: 

Served as executive director since 2022. In that capacity he directs the work of the corporation, including the American Revolution Institute of the Society of the Cincinnati, Inc. He proposes the annual budget to the board of directors, manages the staff, and is responsible to the president general, executive committee, and board of directors for the conduct of the Society’s programs. The executive director is a non-voting member of the executive committee.

About Society of the Cincinnati:

The Society of the Cincinnati is a charitable corporation organized under the laws of the District of Columbia to promote popular understanding and appreciation of the American Revolution and its legacy. The corporation is governed by a board of directors with thirty-four members—six officers and twenty-eight directors. Between meetings of the board of directors, the corporation is governed by an executive committee, consisting of the six officers, executive director, and solicitor. The officers serve for three-year terms. The directors serve until replaced. The executive director and solicitor are appointed officials. The Society of the Cincinnati, Inc., is governed under bylaws adopted by its board of directors. The Society of the Cincinnati was incorporated in 1937 and was granted exemption from taxation by a special act of the U.S. Congress. The corporation is a 501(c)(3) charity. All donations to the Society of the Cincinnati, Inc., are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law.

The Society of the Cincinnati was founded in 1783 by retiring officers of the Continental Army who subscribed to the Institution of the Society of the Cincinnati. Having secured the independence of the United States in a war lasting more than eight years, they created the Society of the Cincinnati to perpetuate the memory of the American Revolution and the accomplishments of the Revolutionary generation. The founders elected George Washington, the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, as the first president general of the Society of the Cincinnati. Until the twentieth century, the Society of the Cincinnati was governed by its six officers, with major governing decisions approved by general meetings of the Society held every three years. To make major governing decisions between these Triennial meetings, the Society established a twenty-eight-member standing committee, to meet twice each year, in 1890. Triennial meetings and meetings of the standing committee, largely ceremonial in nature, link the modern Society of the Cincinnati to its historical origins. The Society is the oldest private patriotic organization in the United States.