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Honorary title in the United States

This article is about the honorary title in the United States. For honorary role in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth of Nations countries, see Colonel-in-Chief.

The honorable title prefix and style of "Colonel" is designated legally for various reasons by US governors in common law to citizens, employees, travelers and visitors within their states.^[1] The origins of the titular colonelcy can be traced back to colonial and antebellum times when men of the landed gentry were given the title to commission companies or for financing the local militias without actual expectations of command.

This practice can be traced back to the English Renaissance when a colonelcy was purchased by a lord or prominent gentleman but the actual command would fall to a lieutenant colonel, who would deputize its members for the proprietor.^[2]

There is an aristocratic tinge to the social usage of the title "