Last surviving United States war veterans

This is an incomplete list of the last surviving veterans of American wars.

Exactly who is the last surviving veteran is often an issue of contention, especially with records from long-ago wars.

The "last man standing" was often very young at the time of enlistment and in many cases had lied about his age to gain entry into the service, which confuses matters further.

American and other Allied forces were involved in the Polar Bear Expedition which began during World War I and continued into the Russian Civil War

A photograph of Daniel Frederick Bakeman (1759–1869). Though not mentioned in the 1864 book The Last Men of the Revolution , he was the last surviving veteran of the American Revolution to have been granted a pension.
Hiram Cronk (1800–1905), the last surviving veteran of the War of 1812 .
Owen Thomas Edgar (1831–1929), the last surviving U.S. veteran of the Mexican–American War .
Frank Buckles (1901–2011), shown here in this recruitment photo, was the last verified American soldier to have served in World War I .
Richard E. Cole (1915–2019), shown second-from-right in this 1942 photograph, was a World War II veteran and the last living participant of the Doolittle Raid .