Lieutenant General William E. Ingram, Jr. was the Director of the Army National Guard. He was the 20th individual and the third three-star general to lead the Army National Guard since 1948, when the office was established as Chief, Army Division, National Guard Bureau. In this assignment Ingram guided the formulation, development and implementation of all programs and policies affecting the Army National Guard, a force of more than 350,000 Citizen Soldiers in the 50 States, three Territories and the District of Columbia. Ingram assumed the position and was promoted to Lieutenant General on November 28, 2011 in a ceremony held at the Pentagon, which was presided over by Army Chief of Staff Raymond T. Odierno and National Guard Bureau Chief Craig R. McKinley. He retired in a ceremony presided over by NGB Chief Frank J. Grass at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall on January 14, 2014. 

January 21st, 1948 in Elizabeth City  /  Died:   Aug 12th, 2017 - aged 93