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8 unusual facts about Assistant Secretary of the Navy


Bainbridge-class destroyer

The US Navy's first torpedo boat destroyers were produced on the recommendation of an 1898 war plans board formed to prosecute the Spanish-American War and chaired by Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt.

Edith Guerrier

Included are letters from Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt, who then made changes to the letters as they saw fit.

Flag of the President of the United States

Afterwards, this led to discussions on the situation which (among others) included Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Aide to the Secretary of the Navy Byron McCandless.

Marvin H. McIntyre

In this Navy connection McIntyre first met Roosevelt, then Assistant Secretary of the Navy.

Official Records of the American Civil War

Union Navy Department records were preserved, but not until 1884 was work begun by Navy Department librarian, later Assistant Secretary of the Navy, James R. Soley to collect and publish.

The Montfort Academy

The school was founded by a small group of businessmen and educators, including corporate finance executive and former Assistant Secretary of the Navy Richard Greco, Jr. in 1998.

Truman Handy Newberry

--while at Detroit Steel & Spring?--> He served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy 1905-1908 under President Theodore Roosevelt and acted for the ill secretary Victor H. Metcalf, who resigned November 13, 1908.

William Kettner

He courted many congressmen and officials, and became friends with Franklin D. Roosevelt, then Assistant Secretary of the Navy.


1946 Pulitzer Prize

Edward A. Harris of St. Louis Post-Dispatch for his articles on the Tidewater Oil situation which contributed to the nation-wide opposition to the appointment and confirmation of Edwin W. Pauley as Undersecretary of the Navy.

Gordon Woodbury

In 1920, Franklin D. Roosevelt resigned as Assistant Secretary of the Navy in order to run for Vice President in the 1920 presidential election.


see also

Auburn Automobile

In 1919, the Eckhart brothers sold out to a group of Chicago investors headed by Ralph Austin Bard, who later served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and as Undersecretary of the Navy for President Roosevelt and for President Harry S. Truman.

Charles Darling

Charles Hial Darling (1859–1944), United States Assistant Secretary of the Navy

David Mann

David E. Mann (born 1924), U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Engineering and Systems) from 1977 to 1981

Gordon Woodbury

President of the United States Woodrow Wilson named Woodbury as Roosevelt's successor and he subsequently served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy from August 27, 1920 until March 9, 1921.

John Koehler

John T. Koehler (1904–1989), U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Navy

Lee R. Scherer

He was special assistant to the assistant secretary of the Navy for research and development from 1956 through 1959, the period when Vanguard, Polaris, and ballistic missile nuclear submarines were developed.

Robert Conn

Robert H. Conn (born 1925), United States Deputy Under Secretary and Assistant Secretary of the Navy