Colonel (United States) to a governor's staff, but without military rights or duties. Famous honorary colonels include Colonel Harland Sanders of KFC fame, a Kentucky colonel; Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager, who received the honor from a Louisiana governor; and Edward M. House, known as Colonel House, a Texas honorary colonel and adviser to President Woodrow Wilson. Colonel (United States) In the United States Army, Marine Corps, and Air Force, colonel () is the most senior field grade military officer rank, immediately above the rank of lieutenant colonel and immediately below the rank of brigadier general. It is equivalent to the naval
Colonel general tábornok" (general of cavalry), and "táborszernagy" (general of artillery) in the early 1940s. The rank title "vezérezredes" is still in use for the highest ranking (four-star) general officers of the "Magyar Honvédség" (Hungarian Defence Forces) and foreign four-star general officers' rank titles are usually translated as "vezérezredes" in Hungarian including Commonwealth air forces' Air Chief Marshals. The equivalent rank for Colonel general in Iraq is called "Ferik Awwal", in Arabic "فريق أول", which is considered the highest rank in Iraqi Army nowadays. The North Korean rank of "sangjang" translates as "colonel general". "Sangjang" is senior to that of "jungjang" (usually