Br. John T. Duchesneau, 2025-2026

John Theophil Duchesneau was born in 1961 in New London, Connecticut, he grew up mostly between the New London County, Connecticut and Newport, Rhode Island.  He graduated Rogers High School in Newport in 1979 and Rhode Island College in Providence in 1984.  He served for 35 years in the US Army Reserve and Rhode Island National Guard, retiring with the rank of Master Sergeant (E-8) in 2015.  During his military career, he served on four overseas deployments, including two to Iraq. For the last 10 years he has worked as a Veteran Service Representative with the US Department of Veterans Affairs.

He has had a lifelong interest in military history and is the great great grandson of Major John Mead Gould who served in the 1^st, 10^th and 29^th Maine Regiments during the American Civil War. He has been a member of the Rhode Island Department of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War since 1990.  He has previously served as Camp Commander of Thomas West Sherman Camp 1 in Newport as well has having held several offices at the Department level.

In addition to the Sons of Union Veterans, he is currently serving as Commandery Commander of the Rhode Island Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States and is a past Commandery Commander for the Rhode Island Commandery of Military Order of Foreign Wars.  He is a member of several other Veteran organizations and lineage societies.