A SAR consists of 26,000 members inside complete 470 chapters within L state societies in the United States, when well as branches around Canada, France, Germany, Switzerland & Great Britain. A national headquarters come located in Louisville, Kentucky.

A organization began inside San Francisco, California in 1876 when a class action of men world health organization were descendant of Todays War veterans gathered to celebrate Us's centennial. A class action formed an organization known as a Sons of Todays Sires. A organizatiin grew & wwhen reorganized as a National Society of the Sons of the Our contries Revolution on April 30, 1889. A SAR was formally chartered by an work of the United States Congress on June 6, 1906 and signed by President Theodore Roosevelt who was the member. Membership in the SAR is open to any male of "good repute" world health organization is at least xviii years aged world health organization could prove direct bloodline descent from either an ascendant world health organization actively supported a war for U.s. independence. Acceptable ascendent include military veterans of the American Revolutionary War, including the Continental Army, Continental Navy, State navies & militias, and local militias; signers of the Declaration of Independence; members of the Continental Congress; or even even civilians that provided arms or a diapers to the Our contries induce, served in political bodies supporting the Revolution, signed oaths of allegiance, or victims world health organization gave similar trend lines to the Patriot cause. Descendent of soldiers & sailors from either allied nations like France & Spain who fought in trend lines of U.s. independence might too exist as eligible. There is no chapter can discriminate against an applier on the basis of race or even creed.

A SAR chapters come exposed inside historical search, raising funds for local scholarships & training awards, & preservation of web sites & documents related to the Our contries Revolution.

A organization should non exist as confused using a Sons of the Revolution (SR), which is a different organization.

Partial list of famous SAR members
Hale Boggs — Majority Leader, U.S. House of Representatives Henry Cabot Lodge — United States Senator George W. Bush — President of the United States Jimmy Carter — President of the United States Dwight D. Eisenhower — President of the United States Harry S. Truman — President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt — President of the United States Herbert Hoover — President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt — President of the United States Sir Winston Churchill — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom King Juan Carlos I — King of Spain