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Commissioner (The Salvation Army)

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Commissioners are given the rank for a number of reasons, being given command of a Territory being the most common. Other reasons may include appointments to International Headquarters Secretarial positions or other top roles and less commonly other high-responsibility positions throughout the world.
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In 1984, spouses of Commissioners, who previously were not promoted to that rank when their partners were, were given the rank in their own right, effectively increasing the amount of Commissioners by two-thirds.
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in which a new General is elected upon the pending retirement or removal of the previous General. Notably, the only time a General has been forcibly removed from office was at the first High Council in 1929 when
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in the organisation, and many of the Army's Territorial Commanders and even the
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All active Commissioners are called upon to take part in The Salvation Army
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hold this rank (the highest rank in The Salvation Army, the rank of
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General
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International Headquarters
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Catherine Booth
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Catherine Bramwell-Booth
Frederick Booth-Tucker
Arthur Booth-Clibborn
Elijah Cadman
George Carpenter
James Dowdle

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