"Secretary of the navy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... IV. THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY, at the head of the Navy Department, has charge of the Naval establishments and all business connected therewith, issues Naval commissions, instructions and orders, supervises the enlistment and discharge of seamen, the construction of Navy Yards and Docks, the construction and ...
— Civil Government for Common Schools • Henry C. Northam
... 25 per cent. of the best and most substantial white men of that State became identified with the Republican party under the leadership of such men as Ex-Governor Hahn and the Honorable Mr. Hunt (who was appointed Secretary of the Navy by President Garfield), Wells, Anderson and many others. General Beauregard was known, or at any rate believed, to be in sympathy with these men and the cause they represented, although he took no active part in politics. But it was in my ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 • Various
... 1798, he was appointed Secretary of the Navy, being the first to hold that position, and so remained until ...
— A Portrait of Old George Town • Grace Dunlop Ecker
... talked to no one who could have seen Washington. My last letter to the Secretary of the Navy was that I thought I was ...
— The Ocean Wireless Boys And The Naval Code • John Henry Goldfrap, AKA Captain Wilbur Lawton
... Knickerbocker writers, perhaps because they were contributors to the Knickerbocker Magazine. One of these was James K. Paulding, a connection of Irving by marriage, and his partner in the Salmagundi Papers. Paulding became Secretary of the Navy under Van Buren, and lived down to the year 1860. He was a {416} voluminous author, but his writings had no power of continuance, and are already obsolete, with the possible exception of his novel, the ...
— Brief History of English and American Literature • Henry A. Beers
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