William Ledyard Rodgers Military person
William Ledyard Rodgers (February 4, 1860–May 7, 1944) was a vice admiral of the United States Navy. His career included service in the Spanish-American War and World War I, and a tour as President of the Naval War College. Rodgers was also a noted historian on military and naval topics, particularly relating to ancient naval warfare.He was the third generation in a well-known family of able naval officers. He was the son of Rear Admiral John Rodgers (1812-1882), who fought in the Second Seminole War (1839-1842) and the American Civil War (1861-1865), and the grandson of Commodore John Rodgers (1772-1838), who fought in the War of 1812 (1812-1814). Rodgers 's own son, John Rodgers, born in 1881, also served as a U.S. Navy officer and was an early aviator, reaching the rank of commander before dying in a plane crash in 1926.
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military command | * *President of the Naval War College *United States Asiatic Fleet *Training and Service Force United States Atlantic Fleet *Senior Member General Board of the United States Navy |
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service start | 1878 |
service end | 1924 |
William Ledyard Rodgers on Wikipedia
External resources
- http://books.google.com/books?id=c70_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA509&lpg=PA509&dq=raymond+p.+rodgers+Hamersly&source=bl&ots=yJRR8UqzLO&sig=BQ-fk5rmI33CGsD9lESD9yzgqCE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=xcW6T-fLIqnq2AWpveXRCQ&sqi=2&ved=0CFYQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q&f=false
- http://memory.loc.gov/service/mss/eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/2011/ms011168.pdf
- http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=79845005
- http://www.history.navy.mil/library/special/rodgers_collection.htm
- http://www.usnwc.edu/NWCSite/images/about/NWCPastPresidents.aspx