By meeting the minimum requirement for fifteen members, a temporary charter was awarded to Post 45, on October 11, 1919. The post was named for Lieutenant Thomas M. Brady, Jr of Canton who was the first Cherokee County man to die during World War I. Brady was born November 29, 1886 in Boston, MA, son of Thomas M. Brady, Sr., the founder of Georgia Marble Finishing Works. The "Lion of the South" memorial to the confederate dead, which now stands in Grant Park, Atlanta was designed and sculpted by Thomas M. Brady, Sr.
The World War I veterans who organized and selected the name of Thomas M. Brady Post 45 were Benjamin F. Kilby, Augusta M. Foute, Guy M. Curtis, Joe Frank Barton, Colin Curry, John T. Ponder, Griffin L. Roberts, Odie P. Galt, Sr., John R. Teasley, Howard Willingham, Carl C. Edge, Sr., James R. Price, George A. Doss, Ernest J. Holcombe and William Elbert Chambers. These gentlemen are the Charter Members of Post 45.
