Commander Ruch was elected at the fifty-fourth National Encampment in Springfield, IL on September 22, 1932. He was opposed by Brother Park Yingling of the Department of Ohio. Ruch received 77 votes and Yingling received 58. Brother Yingling asked that the election become unanimous for Brother Ruch and the National Encampment agreed. At the time of his election, Titus had been in the Order for 41 years.

His father, Titus M. Benjamin, Sr., enlisted on October 6, 1862 in Co. H, 174th Regt. Penn. Vol. Inf., serving 9 months.

Titus was a charter member of the Corporal Weaver Camp 295 of the Pennsylvania Department in Hellertown. He was the Camp's first Quartermaster and subsequently moved through the officer positions at the Camp and State levels. In 1913, he was elected Division Commander.

Titus was born on March 3, 1871 in Lower Saucon Township of Northampton County. He worked as a general store clerk (2 years), engaged in the coal and lumber industry, employed in the undertaking business, employed at Bethlehem Steel Company, and a manager of a millinery and furnishing store (1901-1918).

He was also involved in civic affairs. For public service he was elected, council, Hellertown; elected, school board, Hellertown (8
years); school director, Hellertown (15 years); appointed, mercantile appraiser, Northampton County (1918-1919); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1920; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1922); examiner, Pennsylvania Department of Insurance (1927-1928). He had recently retired as county chairman of the Republican party of Northampton when he was elected Commander-in-Chief.

He and his wife Mary had four children. Titus died on July 6, 1939 in Hellertown and is interred in Union Cemetery in the same town. He served the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War for 46 years at the time of his death.