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Gracey</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #aaa;; line-height: 1.5em"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Gracey-190614-G-G0000-2004.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Gracey-190614-G-G0000-2004.jpeg/220px-Gracey-190614-G-G0000-2004.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="276" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Gracey-190614-G-G0000-2004.jpeg/330px-Gracey-190614-G-G0000-2004.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Gracey-190614-G-G0000-2004.jpeg/440px-Gracey-190614-G-G0000-2004.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="4513" data-file-height="5659" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Birth name</th><td class="infobox-data nickname">James Steele Gracey</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1927-08-24</span>)</span>August 24, 1927<br /><a href="/wiki/Newton,_Massachusetts" title="Newton, Massachusetts">Newton, Massachusetts</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">April 5, 2020<span style="display:none">(2020-04-05)</span> (aged 92)<br /><a href="/wiki/Falls_Church,_Virginia" title="Falls Church, Virginia">Falls Church, Virginia</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Service <wbr />/ branch</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Coast_Guard" title="United States Coast Guard">United States Coast Guard</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Years of service</th><td class="infobox-data">1945–1986</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Rank</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Admiral_(United_States)" title="Admiral (United States)">Admiral</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Commands</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Commandant_of_the_Coast_Guard" title="Commandant of the Coast Guard">Commandant of the Coast Guard</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Coast_Guard_Pacific_Area" title="Coast Guard Pacific Area">Coast Guard Pacific Area</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Ninth_Coast_Guard_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Ninth Coast Guard District">Ninth Coast Guard District</a><br /><a href="/wiki/USCGC_Mariposa" title="USCGC Mariposa">USCGC <i>Mariposa</i></a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>James Steele Gracey</b> (August 24, 1927 – April 5, 2020) was an <a href="/wiki/Admiral_(United_States)" title="Admiral (United States)">admiral</a> of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Coast_Guard" title="United States Coast Guard">United States Coast Guard</a> who served as the 17th <a href="/wiki/Commandant_of_the_Coast_Guard" title="Commandant of the Coast Guard">commandant</a> from 1982 to 1986. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_S._Gracey&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Gracey was born in <a href="/wiki/Newton,_Massachusetts" title="Newton, Massachusetts">Newton, Massachusetts</a> and was the son of Ernest J. Gracey and Edna S. Gracey. Following graduation from <a href="/wiki/Needham_High_School" title="Needham High School">Needham High School</a> in <a href="/wiki/Needham,_Massachusetts" title="Needham, Massachusetts">Needham, Massachusetts</a>, he accepted an appointment to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Coast_Guard_Academy" title="United States Coast Guard Academy">United States Coast Guard Academy</a> in <a href="/wiki/New_London,_Connecticut" title="New London, Connecticut">New London, Connecticut</a>. While a cadet at the Academy, he served as battalion commander and captain of the baseball team. He was also a member of the soccer and rifle teams.<sup id="cite_ref-CGHO_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CGHO-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Coast_Guard_career">Coast Guard career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_S._Gracey&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Coast Guard career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Following graduation in June 1949, he agreed to remain at the Academy until the following September as a tactical instructor. From 1951 to 1953, he was stationed at the <a href="/wiki/Captain_of_the_port#United_States" title="Captain of the port">Captain of the Port Office</a> in <a href="/wiki/Boston,_Massachusetts" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston, Massachusetts">Boston, Massachusetts</a>. Between March and May 1953 he attended the LORAN Indoctrination School at Coast Guard Training Station, Groton, Connecticut. After completing the course he commanded the <a href="/wiki/LORAN" title="LORAN">LORAN</a> station, Ocean Cape, Yakutat, Alaska, for one year. He then returned to the Academy for a brief assignment as assistant tactics officer and baseball coach from June to September 1954. He entered the Graduate School of Business Administration at <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a> in 1954, receiving a master of business administration in June 1956.<sup id="cite_ref-CGHO_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CGHO-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As part of his work at Harvard, he spent the summer of 1955 in industry training at <a href="/wiki/Norton_Abrasives" title="Norton Abrasives">Norton Company</a> in Worcester, Massachusetts. From July 1956 to July 1960, he served at Coast Guard Headquarters, Washington, DC, as a branch chief in the supply division. During the following two years he commanded the buoy tender <a href="/wiki/USCGC_Mariposa" title="USCGC Mariposa">USCGC <i>Mariposa</i></a> out of New London, Connecticut. The ship serviced aids to navigation along the seacoast of Connecticut and Long Island and broke ice on the Hudson River From September 1962 to April 1965, he served as Comptroller, of the St. Louis-based <a href="/wiki/Second_Coast_Guard_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Second Coast Guard District">Second Coast Guard District</a> with collateral duties that included cadet procurement in Kansas and Missouri. He then transferred to the <a href="/wiki/Third_Coast_Guard_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Third Coast Guard District">Third Coast Guard District</a> staff in New York to serve as assistant Project Officer for the conversion of Fort Jay, Governors Island from an Army post to a Coast Guard facility. His duties included developing the organization for the host command and planning all the island's "humanities." For that duty he was awarded the Secretary of Treasury Commendation for Achievement Ribbon. From March 1966 to June 1969, he was executive officer of the Coast Guard Base at Governors Island for which he received a Coast Guard Letter of Commendation. His special duties during that period included community relations with the large island population and labor relations, including negotiating contracts with several different unions. </p><p>Gracey served in a number of <a href="/wiki/Flag_officer" title="Flag officer">flag officer</a> assignments prior to becoming commandant, including commander of the <a href="/wiki/Cleveland,_Ohio" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleveland, Ohio">Cleveland</a>-based <a href="/wiki/Ninth_Coast_Guard_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Ninth Coast Guard District">Ninth Coast Guard District</a>, with responsibility for the Great Lakes area; commander of <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco,_California" class="mw-redirect" title="San Francisco, California">San Francisco</a>-based <a href="/wiki/Twelfth_Coast_Guard_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Twelfth Coast Guard District">Twelfth Coast Guard District</a> and Pacific Area, with responsibility for the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Ocean" title="Pacific Ocean">Pacific Ocean</a> area; 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