Adjutant General of North Carolina
The Adjutant General of North Carolina is the head of the North Carolina National Guard. The position was created in 1806, when the Militia Acts of 1792 required the state to establish the position to better train the state militia. The office is appointed by the Governor of North Carolina and requires five years prior military service.
List of Adjutant Generals
This is a list of persons who have held the office of Adjutant General of North Carolina.| Picture | Name | Hometown | Term |
| Benjamin Smith | Brunswick County | 1806-1807 | |
| - | Edward Pasteur | Craven County | 1807-1808 |
| Calvin Jones | Wake County | 1808-1812 | |
| - | Robert Williams | Surry County | 1812-1821 |
| - | Beverly Daniel | Wake County | 1821-1840 |
| - | Robert Williams Haywood | Wake County | 1840-1857 |
| - | Richard C. Cotten | Chatham County | 1857-1860 |
| John Franklin Hoke | Lincoln County | 1860-1861 | |
| James Green Martin | Pasquotank County | 1861-1863 | |
| Daniel Gould Fowle | Wake County | 1863-1863 | |
| Richard Caswell Gatlin | Lenoir County | 1864-1865 | |
| - | John Alexander Gilmer | Guilford County | 1866-1868 |
| - | Abiel W. Fisher | Bladen County | 1868-1872 |
| - | John C. Gorman | Wake County | 1872-1877 |
| - | Johnstone Jones | Wake County | Jan. 1877 - Dec. 1888 |
| - | James Dodge Glenn | Guilford County | Jan. 1889 |
| - | Francis Hawkins Cameron | Wake County | 1893-1896 |
| - | Andrew Duvall Cowles | Iredell County | Feb. 1897 - Dec. 1898 |
| - | Beverly S. Royster | Granville County | Dec. 1898 - Dec. 1904 |
| - | Thomas R. Robertson | Mecklenburg County | Jan. 1905 - Mar. 1909 |
| - | Joseph Franklin Armfield | Iredell County | Apr. 1909 - Oct. 1910 |
| - | Roy Lutterell Leinster | Iredell County | Nov. 1910 - Aug 1912 |
| - | Gordon Smith | Wake County | Nov. 1912 - Jan 1913 |
| - | Lawrence W. Young | Buncombe County | Jan. 1913 - Jun. 1916 |
| - | Beverly S. Royster | Granville County | Jun. 1916 - Aug. 1917 |
| - | Lawrence W. Young | Buncombe County | Sep. 1917 - Aug. 1918 |
| - | Beverly S. Royster | Granville County | Sep. 1918 - Jun. 1920 |
| John Van Bokkelen Metts | Wake County | Jun. 1920 - Jul. 31, 1951 | |
| - | Thomas B. Longest | Wake County | Aug. 1 - Sep. 30, 1951 |
| - | John Hall Manning | Durham County | Oct. 1, 1951 - Aug. 16, 1957 |
| - | Capus Miller Waynick | Guilford County | Aug. 16, 1957 - Jan. 31, 1961 |
| - | Claude T. Bowers | Halifax County | Feb. 1, 1961 - Jan. 31, 1970 |
| - | Ferd Leary Davis | Lenoir County | Feb. 1, 1970 - Feb. 16, 1973 |
| - | William M. Buck | Robeson County | Jun. 1, 1973 - Feb. 28, 1975 |
| - | Clarence Bender Shimer | Dare County | Mar. 1, 1975 - Apr. 25, 1977 |
| - | William Emmett Ingram | Pasquotank County | Apr. 26, 1977 - Oct. 16, 1983 |
| - | Hubert M. Leonard | Candor, Montgomery County | Oct. 17, 1983 - Sep. 30, 1985 |
| - | Charles E. Scott | Wake County | Oct. 1, 1985 - Mar. 5, 1989 |
| - | Nathaniel H Robb Jr. | Columbia, South Carolina | Mar. 6, 1989 - Apr. 4 1993 |
| Gerald A. Rudisill, Jr. | Badin, Stanly County | Apr. 5, 1993 - Jul. 15, 2001 | |
| William Emmett Ingram Jr. | Pasquotank County | Jul. 16, 2001 - Sep. 30, 2010 | |
| Gregory A. Lusk | Clinton, Sampson County | Oct. 1, 2010 - Nov. 30, 2019 | |
| Marvin Todd Hunt | Cary, Wake County | Dec. 1, 2019 - present |