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- Modern Bios A
- Abbot, Edward W.
- Abbot, James Lloyd
- Abbott, Clark Tait
- Abbott, William George
- Abbott, Robert Lewis
- Abele, Mannert Lincoln
- Abercrombie, Laurence Allen
- Abercrombie, William Warner
- Abernethy, Elmer Paul
- Abhau, William Conrad
- Abplanalp, Kenneth Clair
- Abrahams, Noble Wayne
- Acker, Frank Clements
- Ackerman, Edward
- Ackiss, Ernest Lee
- Acuff, Jasper Terry
- Adair, Charles
- Adair, Crutchfield
- Adair, Jamie
- Adam, James D.
- Adams, Allen Bond Jr.
- Adams, Benjamin Harrison
- Adams, Carlton Rolla
- Adams, Charles Francis, III
- Adams, Dudley Hale
- Adams, Frank Eugene
- Adams, John Clausel
- Adams, Lenus Franklin
- Adams, Lynn W.
- Adams, Richard Donald
- Adams, Robert Lee
- Adams, Scarritt
- Adams, Spencer Moore
- Adams, Thomas McConnell
- Adams, Woodbury Sanderson
- Adamson, Frank Marshall
- Adamson,Robert Edward Jr
- Adee, Graham Montrose
- Adell, Bruce Byron
- Adell, Cecil Clinton
- Adkins, James Alvin
- Adkins, Joe Dean
- Adrian, Robert Nelson
- Ageton, Arthur Ainsley
- Agnew, Dwight Merle
- Agnew, Henry Follin
- Agnew, Jack
- Agnew, William John Clarke
- Ahern, James Richard
- Ahl, Benjamin Nathaniel
- Ahroon, Thomas Andrew
- Aiau, Harvey Chadwick Kamohoalii
- Ailes, John William, III
- Ainsworth, Herbert Sylvan
- Ainsworth, Walden Lee
- Akers, Frank
- Albers, John Juergen
- Albert, Francis Lee
- Albin, George Waugh
- Albright, Paul Morris
- Albrittain, John Warren
- Alderman, John Clement
- Alderton, Dickson Wellington
- Aldrich, Charles Warren
- Aldrich, Clarence Edward
- Aldrich, Clarence Edward, Jr.
- Aldridge, Eugene Talbert
- Alexander, Joe McKnitt
- Alexander, John Richmond
- Alexander, Marion Snow
- Alexander, Ralph Clonts
- Alexander, Raymond Wellington
- Alexander, Richard Griffiss
- Alexander, Stanley Morton
- Alexander, William Henry
- Alexis, Algert Daniel
- Alford, John Morris
- Alford, Leon Otto
- Alford, Lodwick Houston
- Alford, Zeb Dickey
- Allan, Halle Charles
- Allan, Theodore DeWitt
- Alldredge, Walter Whitmore
- Allegrone, Charles
- Allen, Archer Meredith Ruland
- Allen, Burrell Clinton Jr.
- Allen, Charles Vern
- Allen, Edward Henry
- Allen, Ezra Griffen
- Allen, James Ross
- Allen, Jerome Lee
- Allen, Max Harold
- Allen, Nelson John
- Allen, Robert Addison
- Allen, Roger Hurst
- Allen, Walter Hinds
- Allen, William Young, Jr
- Allendorfer, Harry Carl, Jr.
- Allis, Frederick Ashton
- Allison, Samuel Francis
- Allshouse, Thomas James
- Almgren, Neal
- Alston, Augustus Howard, Jr.
- Altmann, Richard Gustaf
- Alvarez, Everrett, Jr.
- Alvis, Harry James
- Alvis, John Hubbard
- Amberson, Julius Martin
- Ambruster, Stephen Henry
- Amen, William Thomas
- Amme, Carl Henry Jr.
- Ames, Lionel Eugene Jr.
- Ammon, William Bronley
- Amsden, William Faulkner
- Ancrum, William
- Anderson, Anton Bennett
- Anderson, Bern
- Anderson, Carl Eric
- Anderson, Charles Carter
- Anderson, Charles Harper Jr.
- Anderson, Clyde Bertram
- Anderson, Edward Abel
- Anderson, Edward Lee
- Anderson, Fernald Philip
- Anderson, Franklin Warren
- Anderson, George W.
- Anderson, Herbert Augustus
- Anderson, Herbert Henry
- Anderson, Jay Stephens
- Anderson, Joseph Bruce
- Anderson, Kenneth Leroy
- Anderson, Norman Oliver
- Anderson, Paul Ramseur
- Anderson, Richard Beatty
- Anderson, Richard Ernest
- Anderson, Robert Harold
- Anderson, Roy Gene
- Anderson, Samuel Clay
- Anderson, Thomas Carlyle
- Anderson, Vernon Leroy
- Anderson, Walter Stratton
- Anderson, William Donald
- Anderson, William Lovett
- Anderson, William Robert
- Anderton, Henry Lafayette Jr.
- Andrews, Adolphus
- Andrews, Burton Howell
- Andrews, Cecil L.
- Andrews, Charles Herbert
- Andrews, Charles Lee Jr.
- Andrews, Clyde Cecil
- Andrews, Edgar Clessie Jr
- Andrews, Frank Arland
- Andrews, John Jr.
- Arnold, Murr E.
- Austin, Bernard Lige
- Modern Bios B
- Bagley, David Worth
- Bahm, George Henry
- Bailey, Carlos Augustus
- Bailey, Charles Streater
- Bailey, John
- Bailey, Leonard William
- Bailey, Watson Osgood
- Bailey, William Byron
- Bains, George Washington
- Baird, Abraham Lincoln
- Baird, Charles Fitz
- Baird, Leonard James
- Bakenhus, Reuben Edwin
- Baker, Charles Adams
- Baker, Douglas
- Baker, Duncan Scott
- Baker, Felix Locke
- Baker, Guy Evans
- Baker, Harold Davies
- Baker, Harold Edward
- Baker, Robert Leon
- Baker, Robert Nicholson Scott
- Baker, Wilder Dupuy
- Baker, William Bostock
- Bakke, Harlan James
- Bakutis, Fred Edward
- Baldridge, Harry Alexander
- Baldwin, Frank
- Baldwin, Frank Edward
- Baldwin, Robert Bemus
- Baldwin, Robert Hayes Burns
- Balis, Theodore Lawrence
- Ball, Claude Russell
- Ball, George Cornelius Jr.
- Ball, John
- Banister, Alan B.
- Bastedo, Paul Henry
- Beardall, John Reginald
- Beardsley, George Francis
- Beardsley, Henry Leidenheimer
- Beauregard, Augustin T.
- Beaver, Bud Kearns
- Bellinger, Patrick Nieson Lynch
- Berns, Max Arnold Jr.
- Bernstein, Henry Emil
- Berree, Norman Rahn
- Berrey, Julius M.
- Berrien, Frank Dunn
- Blakely, Edward Noe
- Bulkeley, John Duncan
- Burke, Arleigh A.
- Beard, Jefferson Davis
- Beardslee, Lester Anthony
- Beard, Donald Charles
- Bean, Alan Lavern
- Beam, Carl Eugene
- Bean, Lawrence Lytton
- Modern Bios C
- Cabanillas, Jose M.
- Cabaniss, Robert Wright
- Cabot, Hugh
- Cadwalader, John
- Cady, John Parmelee
- Cafferata, William Francis
- Cagle, Malcolm Winfield
- Cain, James Bernice
- Cain, Mat Murry Jr.
- Caine, Lawrence Ballif Jr.
- Calder, William Edward, III
- Caldwell, Clarence Mills
- Caldwell, Henry Howard
- Calhoun, William Lowndes
- Callaghan, Daniel Judson
- Carney, Robert Bostwick
- Chafee, John Hubbard
- Chandler, Theodore Edson
- Clark, Joseph James
- Claytor, William Graham, Jr.
- Coe, James Wiggins
- Connally, John Bowden, Jr.
- Caldwell, Turner Foster Jr.
- Caldwell, Robert Hugh Jr
- Callahan-Edward Cooper
- Caldwell, Rex Smith
- Calhoun, Walter Carson
- Callahan, Cornelius Patrick Jr.
- Callahan, Fort Hammond
- Callaghan, William McCombe
- Callahan, Joseph William
- Calkins, Willard Charles
- Callaghan, Robert William
- Calvert, Allen Phillip
- Calvert, James Francis
- Calver, George Wehnes
- Calvy, George Lloyd
- Camera, John Alden
- Camera, Robert Snowden
- Cameron, Alan Russel
- Campbell, Herbert John
- Campbell, Gordon
- Campbell, George William
- Campbell-James-Harry
- Campbell, Norwood Axtell
- Campbell, Robert Lord
- Canada, Robert Owen Jr
- Canaga, Bruce Livingston
- Canaga, Bruce Livingston Jr
- Cantrell, Roy Foster
- Caney, Lawrence Davidson
- Canty, Joseph Patrick
- Modern Bios D
- Modern Bios E
- Modern Bios F
- Modern Bios G
- Gabbert, John S. C.
- Gaddis, Seeman
- Gaffney, John Jerome
- Gaillard, William Edward
- Gainard, Joseph A.
- Gaines, Oliver Wallace
- Gaines, Richard Kenna
- Galantin, Ignatius Joseph
- Garcia, Edmund E.
- Garrett, III H. Lawrence
- Gates, Jr. Thomas Sovereign
- Gay, George Henry
- Geiselman, Ellis Hugh
- Ghormley, Robert Lee
- Giffen, Robert Carlisle
- Gingrich, John E.
- Modern Bios H
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- Modern Bios M
- Mabus, Raymond Edwin, Jr.
- Martin, Charles Franklin
- McCann, Allan R.
- McClusky, Clarence Wade
- McGonagle, William Loren
- McMorris, Charles H.
- Michaelis, Frederick
- Miles, Milton E.
- Mitscher, Marc Andrew
- Moffett, Willam Adger, Sr.
- Moffett, William Adger, Jr.
- Momsen, Charles B.
- Montgomery, Alfred Eugene
- Moorer, Thomas Hinman
- Morison, Samuel Eliot
- Mullinnix, Henry Maston
- Murray, Albert Ketcham
- Mustin, Lloyd M.
- Modern Bios N
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- Modern Bios U
- Uehlinger, Archibald Emil
- Uhrenholdt, Andrew Curtis
- Ulen, Francis Graeme
- Underhill, Edward Griffin
- Underhill, James L.
- Underwood, Herbert Whitwell
- Ungar, J. Stephen
- Unmacht, George Paul
- Upham, Frank Brooks
- Urban, Kenneth Lee
- Urbanczyk, Louis Thaddeus, Jr.
- Urquhart, James Burwell, Jr.
- Ustick, Theodore Montanye
- Utter, Harmon Tischer
- Modern Bios V
- Valencia, Eugene Anthony
- Van Landingham, J. Philip
- Van Mater, Blinn
- Van Meter, Karl Schlegel
- Van Metre, Merle
- Van Metre, Thaddeus Johnson
- Van Ness, Harper Elliott
- Van Orden, Merton, Dick
- Van Swearingen, Earl Kendall
- Van Valkenburgh, Franklin
- Van Zandt, James Edward
- Vannoy, Frank Wilson
- VanPeenen, Hubert John
- Vardaman, James Kimble, Jr.
- Varian, Donald Cord
- Vasey, Lloyd Roland
- Vaughan, James John
- Vaughan, Paul
- Vaughn, Robert James
- Veasey, Alexander Craig
- Veazey, David Julian
- Vecchione, Felix Salvatore
- Veeder, William Schuetze
- Vejtasa, Stanley Winfield
- Veline, Carl Ashton
- Vellis, Demetrius John
- Venlet, David J.
- Verhoye, Harry James
- Vernou, Walter Newhall
- Vesole, Kay Kopl
- Vest, John Pinckney Wheeler
- Veth, Kenneth LeRoy
- Vickrey, William Clyde, Jr.
- Vieweg, Walter Victor Rudolph
- Villines, William McKinley, Jr.
- Vincent, Walter Michael
- Vincent, Warren Crist
- Vinock, Eli
- Violett, Quentell
- Virden, Frank
- Virtue, Clark Wakeman
- Visser, Richard Gerben
- Vita, Harold Emanuel
- Vitale, Michael C.
- Vittek, Albert William
- Vitucci, Vito Louis
- Voegeli, Clarence Earl
- Voelker, George E.
- Voetsch, Stephen S.
- Vogan, Guy Sedgwick
- Voge, Richard George
- Vogel, Joseph
- Vogeley, Theodore Robert
- Vogelgesang, Carl Theodore
- Vogt, Larry Gene
- Voils, Roy Cramer
- Von Dreele, William Henry
- Von Heimburg, Ernest Herman
- Von Kleeck, Ernest Saint Clair, Jr.
- Von Weller, George Schoen
- Voorhies , James Franklin
- Voris, Frank Burkhart
- Vorse, Albert Ogden, Jr.
- Vose, James Everett, Jr.
- Vose, William Cecil
- Vosseller, Aurelius Bartlett
- Vossler, Francis Alfred L.
- Vraciu, Alexander
- Modern Bios W
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- Modern Bios Y
- Yancey, Evan White
- Yankey, William Rose
- Yarbrough, Oscar D.
- Yarnell, Harry Ervin
- Yates, Charles Moulding
- Yates, Earl Preston
- Yates, Marion Twitty
- Yavorsky, Joseph Thomas
- Yeager, Howard A.
- Yeomans, Elmer E.
- Yesensky, Albert Samuel
- Yon, Joseph Langham
- Yoran, George Francis
- Young, Andrew Lee, Jr.
- Young, Cassin
- Young, Charles B.
- Young, David Bryan
- Young, David Bryan, Jr.
- Young, Howard Leyland
- Young, Leo C.
- Young, Lloyd Verne
- Young, Mark A.
- Young, Rufus Calhoun
- Young, Robert Todd
- Young, William Brent
- Youngblood, Curtis Tillman
- Youngkin, Carl Kenneth
- Youtz, Ellis Gardiner
- Modern Bios Z
- Zabilsky, John
- Zabriskie, Jr. David
- Zacharias, Ellis Mark
- Zahm, John Crawford
- Zech, Jr. Lando William
- Zehner, John Adolphus
- Zeigler, Samuel Jacob
- Zelibor, Thomas E.
- Zellars, Thomas Edward
- Zemmer, Harold Maurice
- Zern, Richard Dewey
- Ziegemeier, Henry, Joseph
- Zilmer, Richard C.
- Zimble, James Allen
- Zimermann, Richard Galt
- Zimet, Stanford Frederick
- Zimmerli, Rupert Meyrick
- Zimmerman, Max Edward
- Zimmerman, Milton Abraham
- Zimmerman, Nelson Daniel
- Zimmerman, Walter Earnest
- Zimmermann, Edwin Julius Jr.
- Ziroli, Humbert William
- Zitzewitz, Herbert Carl
- Zobel, William Alexander
- Zola, Stanley Peter
- Zondorak, Charles Joseph
- Zornow, Gerard, Philip
- Zurmuehlen, Gerald Dale
- Zumwalt, Elmo Russell
- Zundell, Joseph L.
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James Harrison Oliver
15 January 1857 - 6 April 1928
Chronology of Service
1857 | Jan | 15 | Born in Houston County, Georgia. |
1875 | Jun | 16 | Appointed Cadet Midshipman from 3rd district of Georgia. Hon. Philip Cook. |
1877 | Jun | 20 | Completed four years' course at the US Naval Academy. |
Jun | 20 | Detached from Academy and W.O. | |
Aug | 18 | To Hartford. | |
1879 | May | 1 | Detached from Essex by Commande in Chief and sent home for examinations, 5th June. |
June | Graduated (final). | ||
Jun | 18 | Promoted to rank as Midshipman. | |
Jun | 20 | Detached from Academy, leave till 15 August to re-examinations in September. | |
Sep | 19 | Detached from Academy and W.O. | |
Nov | 6 | Appointed Midshipman from 18th June 1879. | |
Dec | 8 | To Swatara 20 instant. | |
1881 | Oct | 1 | Promoted to rank as Ensign. |
1883 | Jan | 24 | Commissioned an Ensign to rank from 1 October 1881. |
Feb | 20 | To attend Artillery course Ft. Monroe 1 May. | |
1884 | Apr | 25 | Detached 30th instant and to Pacific Station per Str. 20th May. |
Jun | 11 | On board Lackawanna. | |
1886 | Mar | 1 | Transferred to Shenandoah then to Mohican. |
1887 | Jun | 20 | To the Coast Survey. |
1888 | Sep | 28 | Promoted to rank as Lieutenant (jg). |
1889 | Feb | 28 | Detached and to Naval Ordnance Proving Ground 11th March. |
Mar | 12 | Commissioned Lieutenant (jg) to rank from 28th September 1888. | |
Apr | 22 | Detached 29th instant and to instruction in Torpedo College. | |
Aug | 6 | Detached and to course of lectures - Naval War College. | |
Sep | 27 | Detached and to Kearsarge 30th instant. | |
1893 | Jan | 21 | To Ordnance Instruction Washington Yard 1 February. |
Feb | 10 | Detached 11th instant and Inspr. Hotchkiss Ordnance Works. | |
Jul | 4 | Promoted to Lieutenant. | |
Oct | 27 | Commissioned Lieutenant. | |
1894 | Dec | 7 | To Minneapolis 13th instant. |
1896 | Oct | 17 | Detached and to San Francisco this date. |
1897 | Nov | 29 | Detached at once to Torpedo Station (Detached 13 December). |
Dec | Dec | 20 | Delay reporting until 13 February. |
1899 | Sep | 21 | Detached 30 September and to Yankton as Executive 1 October. (Detached 30 September and reported 1 October). |
Nov | 1 | Detached and to Asiatic Station, passage on Solace 9 November. Detached 2 November, reported passage Solace 9 November. | |
Dec | 31 | Detached and to Nashville. (Detached 31). | |
1900 | Jul | 23 | Lieutenant Commander. |
1901 | Apr | 1 | Commissioned Lieutenant Commander from 23 July 1900. |
1902 | Mar | 121 | To Naval War College 18 March. (Reported 18 March). |
1903 | Dec | 2 | Detached 5 December and to duty with Glacier and to command that vessel when in com. (Detached 5 & reported 10 December). |
1904 | JUl | 14 | Detached when out commission and to command Culgoa. (Detached 30 July and reported 1 August.). |
1905 | Jul | 6 | Transferred to the Retired List from 30 June Section 8, Act. 3 March 1899. |
Jul | 6 | Continue present duties until further orders. | |
Jul | 25 | Detached and to home. (Detached 11 & reported home 12 August). | |
Sep | 21 | Unexpired leave revoked to duty as Asst. Inspector 14th Light House District, Cincinnati, Ohio and Inspector 15 October (Reported 15 October). | |
1906 | Aug | 4 | Commissioned ad interim a Commander on active list from 30 June. |
Aug | 13 | Continue present duties. | |
Aug | 25 | Executed oath of office. | |
1907 | Jan | 9 | Recommissioned from 1 July 1906. |
Mar | 21 | Detached 31 March and to Naval War College. (Detached and reported 13 April). | |
1908 | Jul | 20 | Detached 25 July and to West Virginia as Chief of Staff, Pacific Fleet (Detached 25 July and reported 1 August). |
1909 | May | 4 | Detached and to command Albany. |
1910 | Mar | 16 | Detached and to duty at Naval War College, Newport, R.I. (Detached 14 April & reported 10 May). |
Jul | 1 | Captain. | |
1911 | Nov | 9 | Detached 17 November and to command New Hampshire 18 November. (Detached & reported 16 November). |
1912 | Jul | 18 | Detached command New Hampshire 25 July and to command Alabama. (Detached & reported 25 July). |
Sep | 6 | Detached on relief and to command New Hampshire. (Detached & reported 10 September). | |
1913 | Nov | 1 | Detached on relief after target practice, home and wait orders. (Detached 12 & home 20 December). |
1914 | Jan | 6 | To duty as Director of Naval Intelligence, Navy Department, Washington, DC, 20 January (reported 20 January). |
1916 | Aug | 29 | Rear Admiral. |
1917 | Mar | 26 | Detached and to duty as Governor of the Virgin Islands of the US taking passage on Dolphin. (Detached 28 March; reported 9 April). |
May | 7 | Commissioned regular as Governor of Virgin Islands. | |
Sep | 21 | Attained the rank of Rear Admiral Upper half (T) from 1 July 1918. | |
1919 | Feb | 26 | Detached upon relief and to Naval Operations, Navy Dept., Washington, DC for duty. (Detached 8 April, reported 15 April). |
Jul | 31 | Attained the rank of Rear Admiral of the upper half 1 July 1919. | |
1921 | Jan | 3 | Transferred to Retired List from 15 January 1921 as attained statutory retirement age of 64 years. (Act of 29 August 1916). |
Jan | 8 | Upon being placed on Retired List 15 January 1921 detached. (Office of Naval Operations, Navy Dept.) and to home. | |
Decorations. | Navy Cross Citation: "For exceptionally meritorious service in a duty of great responsibility of Governor of the virgin Islands during the War." |
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1928 | Apr | 6 | Died at Shirley, Virginia, this date. |
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