25 detachments also set all-time highs in membership.
For the third consecutive year, the Sons of The American Legion set a new record for membership.
The SAL finished 2025 with 404,941 members. That’s a 1.94% increase over 2024’s final membership of 397,243 members.
Since 1983, the first year of accurate membership numbers, the SAL membership has increased every year except two — in 2020 and 2021, during the Covid-19 pandemic.
When SAL membership surpassed the 400,000 mark in August, then-SAL National Commander Joseph Navarreté said, “Surpassing 400,000 members shows how much our generations, from our oldest member to our youngest, value the service and sacrifice our veterans have made so that we all can live free in the greatest nation in the world.”
Twenty-five detachments finished 2025 with all-time highs in membership:
· Arizona: 9,812
· California: 11,837
· Connecticut: 2,036
· Delaware: 2,694
· Florida: 27,466
· Hawaii: 135
· Idaho: 755
· Latin America: 45
· Maryland: 18,309
· Michigan: 29,024
· Minnesota: 11,862
· New Hampshire: 6,833
· New Jersey: 10,323
· New York: 32,295
· North Carolina: 2,964
· North Dakota: 1,148
· Ohio: 33,270
· Oklahoma: 1,526
· Pennsylvania: 64,910
· South Carolina: 1,886
· South Dakota: 2,284
· Tennessee: 1,858
· Virginia: 4,788
· Washington: 2,928
· Wisconsin: 4,820
Those detachments will be recognized during the SAL National Convention in Louisville, Ky., Aug. 28-Sept. 3.
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