The Marine Corps League is the organization for all Marines, FMF Corpsmen, and FMF Chaplains who served with Marines. It takes great pride in crediting its founding in 1923 to World War I hero, then 13th Commandant of the Marine Corps, Major General John A. Lejeune. It's Federal Charter, approved by An Act of the Seventy-Fifth Congress of the United States of America was signed and approved by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on August 4, 1937. Since it's earliest days, the Marine Corps League has enjoyed the support and encouragement of the active duty and Reserve establishments of the U.S. Marine Corps. - The purposes of the Marine Corps League as prescribed in it's Federal Charter are …to preserve the traditions and to promote the interests of the United States Marine Corps;