English: Dr. Benjamin Church (August 24, 1734 – 1778), first "Surgeon General" of the United States Army, serving as the "Chief Physician & Director General" of the Medical Service of the Continental Army from July 27, 1775 to October 17, 1775. He was also active in Boston's Sons of Liberty movement in the years before the war. However, early in the American Revolution, Church was tried and convicted for sending secret information to General Thomas Gage, the British commander. No life portrait of Church exists. This posthumous portrait is based on "contemporary description".^[1]