BG R. NEILL RAHN
Kansas' 26th Adjutant General
January 11, 1923 - February 10, 1925

BG R. Neill Rahn was born March 25, 1875, at Clay Center, where as an adult he was engaged in the general mercantile business. While residing in Clay Center he enlisted in Company H, 4th Infantry, Kansas National Guard. In 1908, he was appointed First Lieutenant of Infantry. Moving to Topeka, he was appointed Assistant Adjutant General of Kansas in 1911 with the rank of colonel, which he held for nine years except during World War I, where he served in the Office of the Provost Marshal General in Washington. He was appointed Adjutant General of Kansas in 1923 and promoted to brigadier general the same year. He also served as: Chief Deputy United States Marshal, Chief of Protective Division of the Kansas Banker's Association.