General George A. Custer

Francis H. Case, past Representative and Senator; Harold H. Handley, past Circuit Court Judge; M. L. Slade, First Department Commander past State Highway Commissioner, and first Superintendant of Custer State Park; Clarence Cowlaski past State Veterans Service Officer; Kenneth L. Glaser, past Grand Master of South Dakota Masons and past Custer County Veteran Service Officer; Darold D. Couch, past VFW Department Commander; Ken Irwin, past Custer County Commission Chairman and past County Veteran Service Officer; Donna Talley, Executive Director of W.E.A.V.E. and 2014 Custer "Citizen of the Year"; Harold Stickney, past Mayor of Custer City; Jared Carson, past Mayor of Custer City; Corbin Herman, current Mayor of Custer City; Jim Brickey, past Mayor of Hill City; Curtis Halverson, past SD Department American Legion Vice Commander; Edwin Thompson, past SD Department American Legion Vice Commander; and Jana Virtue, current Custer County Veteran Service Officer.

"Gold" Post of the Black Hills. Custer State Park's Legion Lake, Legion Lake Campground, and Legion Lake Lodge named after of the Post.  First South Dakota Department Commander Myron L. Shade was twice Post Commander.

Excerpted from "The American Legion in South Dakota First Quarter Century";

"GENERAL GEORGE A. CUSTER POST NO. 46 CUSTER, SOUTH DAKOTA This post in the southwestern part of the state, where much history has been made, is appropriately named. There are about a hundred members and the post has its own home. It has been very active in community affairs and occasionally takes a whole page advertisement in the Custer County Chronicle to call attention to its activities during its life. Some of the community activities listed are: Sponsored Junior baseball for 100 boys for a period over ten years, sponsors Boy Scout Troop of 150 youngsters, sent boys to Boy's State for five years, handled the veterans service work in the community, sponsored high school oratorical contests, presented American Legion school award medals to the students of the local schools, organized Post education committee to work with other groups interested in education, opposed local un-American trends and cooperated with the F. B. I. in combatting subversive activities, cooperated on Gold Discovery Days as a community-wide annual celebration, participated actively in community fund drives, erected roll of honor on the Court House grounds listing all Custer County men in service in World War II, maintained firing squad for use at funerals and memorial services, established a guidance and counselling service for veterans, maintained an active service officer, handled welfare for needy children, furnished aid and lodging for transient ex-servicemen, sponsored public skating rink and pond, took active part in grave registration program and secured government tomb stones for every soldier's grave in the county not already marked, assisted in the discovery of the location of the Gordon Stockade, which had been lost for nearly 50 years, and cooperated with the Chamber of Commerce in rebuilding it, assisted in building and furnishing a ward at Sanatorium for T. B. patients, and sponsored and contributed financially to the erection of a band shell for the use of the Custer School Band. Some of the members who have been unusually active in the post are: Carl Roseberry, Sid Manary, Jack Rossier, Irving Fox (deceased), Byron Hazeltine, Wilbur Greener, Ted Leary. Harry Bostwick served in both wars. Many members of the Custer Post have served in the higher offices of both the Government and the Legion. Francis Case has for many years been a well-known mem-ber of Congress, Harold H. Handley is a former Circuit Court Judge, M. L. Shade is a Past Department Commander and a member of the State Highway Commission, J. A. Wallace is a retired army colonel and active in the ranchman's organization, Wilbur Greener is the business manager of the Custer State Sanitarium and Clarence Cowlaski is a state veterans service officer."