AMERICAN LEGION ST. LOUIS CAUCUS OF 1919

Kentucky sent a full delegation of 26 men, all that the state was entitled to have as delegates at the
St. Louis caucus. The delegates were;
B.F. Beard, James Beard, Henry DeHaven Moorman, Hardinsburg; Ulrie J. Bell, F.D. Bernheim, George R.
Ewald, A.T. Fisher, D.A. Sachs, Jr., M.L. Sosnin, Louisville; Robert L. Bronsugh, Edmund A.Muir, Nicholasville; Lynn B. Evans, Lebanon; V.C. Fraser, J.G. Juett, Wickliffe; M.K. Gordon, Madisonville;
Herman H. Hall, Viper; J. Murray Hill, Bowling Green; E. Liostienod, E.H. Marriner, Dayton; J.H Ringgold,Jr., Russelville; R.H. Slack, Owensboro; William O. Soyars, Hopkinsville; Everett Speumick,
Elkton; Phil H. Stewart, James G. Wheeler, Paducah; John S. Young, Glasgow; E.S. Fenick, Elkton, E.C.
Suckrod.

In St. Louis the Kentucky delegation elected Maurice K. Gordon, Madisonville, who attended the Paris
Caucus, (and additionally, created the official organization name, (The American Legion) as its spokesman and voted as a unit on all questions. While many delegations had split votes and were often divided in voting, the Kentucky delegations was conspicuously outstanding for its harmony and unanimity.
Major Gordon and others laid a solid foundation for the future of The American Legion in Kentucky, which
has since been built on by zealous and wise leaders who have jealously guarded the reputation of the
organization, carrying out wisely and conservatively the wishes and commands of the Legionnaires as they
were from year to year expressed by a majority of the delegates from individual posts and at the
annual state conventions.