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class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%;"><div class="fn" style="font-size:125%;">Benjamin Stoddert</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Benjamin_Stoddert_SecNavy.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Benjamin_Stoddert_SecNavy.jpg/220px-Benjamin_Stoddert_SecNavy.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="276" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Benjamin_Stoddert_SecNavy.jpg/330px-Benjamin_Stoddert_SecNavy.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Benjamin_Stoddert_SecNavy.jpg/440px-Benjamin_Stoddert_SecNavy.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3977" data-file-height="4993" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">1st <a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the_Navy" title="United States Secretary of the Navy">United States Secretary of the Navy</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />June 18, 1798 – March 31, 1801</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_Adams" title="John Adams">John Adams</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a><br /></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Morris_(financier)" title="Robert Morris (financier)">Robert Morris</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(Agent of Marine)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Smith_(Cabinet_member)" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Smith (Cabinet member)">Robert Smith</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">1751<br /><a href="/wiki/Charles_County,_Maryland" title="Charles County, Maryland">Charles County</a>, <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Maryland" title="Province of Maryland">Maryland</a>, <a href="/wiki/British_America" title="British America">British America</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">December 18, 1813 (aged 61–62)<br /><a href="/wiki/Bladensburg,_Maryland" title="Bladensburg, Maryland">Bladensburg</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maryland" title="Maryland">Maryland</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Federalist_Party" title="Federalist Party">Federalist</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Rebecca Lowndes</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/University_of_Pennsylvania" title="University of Pennsylvania">University of Pennsylvania</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Benjamin Stoddert</b> (1751 – 18 December 1813) was the first <a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the_Navy" title="United States Secretary of the Navy">United States Secretary of the Navy</a> from 1 May 1798 to 31 March 1801. </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=Benjamin_Stoddert&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Stoddert was born in <a href="/wiki/Charles_County,_Maryland" title="Charles County, Maryland">Charles County, Maryland</a> in 1751, the son of Captain Thomas Stoddert. He was educated at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Pennsylvania" title="University of Pennsylvania">University of Pennsylvania</a> and then worked as a merchant. He served as a captain in the <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a> cavalry and later as secretary to the <a href="/wiki/Continental_Board_of_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Continental Board of War">Continental Board of War</a> during the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a>. He was severely injured in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Brandywine" title="Battle of Brandywine">Battle of Brandywine</a> and was subsequently released from active military service.<sup id="cite_ref-Peter,_Grace_Dunlop_1933_12_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Peter,_Grace_Dunlop_1933_12-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1781, he married Rebecca Lowndes, daughter of <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Lowndes" title="Christopher Lowndes">Christopher Lowndes</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Maryland" title="Maryland">Maryland</a> merchant, and they had eight children. They resided at the home of his father-in-law, <a href="/wiki/Bostwick_(Bladensburg,_Maryland)" title="Bostwick (Bladensburg, Maryland)">Bostwick</a>, located at <a href="/wiki/Bladensburg,_Maryland" title="Bladensburg, Maryland">Bladensburg, Maryland</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Benjamin_Stoddert&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1783, Stoddert established a <a href="/wiki/Tobacco" title="Tobacco">tobacco</a> export business in <a href="/wiki/Georgetown,_Washington,_D.C." class="mw-redirect" title="Georgetown, Washington, D.C.">Georgetown</a>, with business partners <a href="/wiki/Uriah_Forrest" title="Uriah Forrest">Uriah Forrest</a> and John Murdock.<sup id="cite_ref-Peter,_Grace_Dunlop_1933_12_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Peter,_Grace_Dunlop_1933_12-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After <a href="/wiki/George_Washington" title="George Washington">George Washington</a> was elected <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">President</a>, he asked Stoddert to purchase key parcels of land in the area that would become the nation's capital before the formal decision to establish the federal city on the banks of the <a href="/wiki/Potomac_River" title="Potomac River">Potomac</a> drove up prices there. Stoddert then transferred the parcels to the government. During the 1790s, he also helped found the <a href="/wiki/Bank_of_Columbia" title="Bank of Columbia">Bank of Columbia</a> to handle purchases of land in the <a href="/wiki/District_of_Columbia" class="mw-redirect" title="District of Columbia">District of Columbia</a> for the federal government. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Secretary_of_the_Navy">Secretary of the Navy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Benjamin_Stoddert&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Secretary of the Navy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Benjamin_Stoddert_by_Robert_Field.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Benjamin_Stoddert_by_Robert_Field.png/220px-Benjamin_Stoddert_by_Robert_Field.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="302" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Benjamin_Stoddert_by_Robert_Field.png 1.5x" data-file-width="294" data-file-height="403" /></a><figcaption>Benjamin Stoddert by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Field_(painter)" title="Robert Field (painter)">Robert Field</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In May 1798, President <a href="/wiki/John_Adams" title="John Adams">John Adams</a> appointed Stoddert, a loyal <a href="/wiki/Federalist_Party" title="Federalist Party">Federalist</a>, to oversee the newly established <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_the_Navy" title="United States Department of the Navy">Department of the Navy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As the first <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_the_Navy" class="mw-redirect" title="Secretary of the Navy">Secretary of the Navy</a>, Stoddert soon found himself dealing with an undeclared naval war with <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a>, which would come to be known as the <a href="/wiki/Quasi-War" title="Quasi-War">Quasi-War</a>. Stoddert realized that the infant U.S. Navy possessed too few warships to protect a far-flung merchant marine by using convoys or patrolling the <a href="/wiki/North_America" title="North America">North American</a> coast. Instead, he concluded that the best way to defeat the French campaign against American shipping was by offensive operations in the <a href="/wiki/Caribbean" title="Caribbean">Caribbean</a>, where most of the French <a href="/wiki/Cruiser" title="Cruiser">cruisers</a> were based. Thus at the very outset of the conflict, the Department of the Navy adopted a policy of going to the source of the enemy's strength. American successes during the conflict resulted from a combination of Stoddert's administrative skill in deploying his limited forces and the initiative of his seagoing officers. Under Stoddert's leadership, the reestablished <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">United States Navy</a> acquitted itself well and achieved its goal of stopping the depredations of French ships against American commerce. </p><p>Stoddert concerned himself with the Navy's daily administration and operations and the service's future strength. He established the first six navy yards and advocated building twelve <a href="/wiki/74_gun" class="mw-redirect" title="74 gun">74 gun</a> <a href="/wiki/Ships_of_the_line" class="mw-redirect" title="Ships of the line">ships of the line</a>. <a href="/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress">Congress</a> initially approved construction of these ships in 1799. A design was prepared by <a href="/wiki/Joshua_Humphrey" class="mw-redirect" title="Joshua Humphrey">Joshua Humphrey</a>, who had prepared the initial designs for <a href="/wiki/Six_original_United_States_frigates" class="mw-redirect" title="Six original United States frigates">the 44 gun frigates of 1797</a> and lumber collected at the new Navy Yard. </p><p>Following the peace accord with France, the U.S. Navy's personnel strength and the number of active vessels were reduced. The <a href="/wiki/Jefferson_Administration" class="mw-redirect" title="Jefferson Administration">Jefferson Administration</a> reduced active naval strength to three frigates (twelve were built between 1797 and 1800) and sold off or used the collected supplies in the Navy Yards for <a href="/wiki/Gunboat" title="Gunboat">gunboat</a> construction. This policy left the United States unprepared to respond to the later threats of the <a href="/wiki/Barbary_pirates" title="Barbary pirates">Barbary pirates</a> and failed to prevent <a href="/wiki/War_of_1812" title="War of 1812">war with England in 1812</a>. </p><p>Stoddert established the <a href="/wiki/Navy_Department_Library" title="Navy Department Library">Navy Department Library</a> due to instructions received from President Adams in a letter dated 31 March 1800. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Post-Navy_life">Post-Navy life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Benjamin_Stoddert&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Post-Navy life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Stoddert_Grave_Sept_09.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Stoddert_Grave_Sept_09.JPG/200px-Stoddert_Grave_Sept_09.JPG" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Stoddert_Grave_Sept_09.JPG/300px-Stoddert_Grave_Sept_09.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Stoddert_Grave_Sept_09.JPG/400px-Stoddert_Grave_Sept_09.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="1944" /></a><figcaption>Grave of Benjamin Stoddert, September 2009</figcaption></figure> <p>He left office in March 1801 to return to commercial life. Following his term as Secretary of the Navy, Stoddert's final years witnessed a decline in his fortunes: as Stoddert lost heavily in land speculation, Georgetown declined as a commercial center, and the Embargo and the <a href="/wiki/War_of_1812" title="War of 1812">War of 1812</a> brought American overseas trade to a halt. During this period, he lived at <a href="/wiki/Halcyon_House" title="Halcyon House">Halcyon House</a>, on the corner at 3400 Prospect Street NW.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Stoddert died on 13 December 1813 and is buried in the graveyard at <a href="/wiki/St._Matthew%27s_Church_(Seat_Pleasant,_Maryland)" title="St. Matthew's Church (Seat Pleasant, Maryland)">Addison Chapel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Seat_Pleasant,_Maryland" title="Seat Pleasant, Maryland">Seat Pleasant, Maryland</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Things_named_for_Benjamin_Stoddert">Things named for Benjamin Stoddert</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Benjamin_Stoddert&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Things named for Benjamin Stoddert"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Two <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">Navy</a> ships: <a href="/wiki/USS_Stoddert" title="USS Stoddert">USS <i>Stoddert</i> (DD-302)</a>, 1920–1935, and <a href="/wiki/USS_Benjamin_Stoddert" title="USS Benjamin Stoddert">USS <i>Benjamin Stoddert</i></a> (DDG-22), 1964–1991</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Stoddert" title="Fort Stoddert">Fort Stoddert</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_Territory" title="Mississippi Territory">Mississippi Territory</a> (today <a href="/wiki/Alabama" title="Alabama">Alabama</a>)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070625120055/http://www.ccboe.com/stoddert/">Benjamin Stoddert Middle School</a> in <a href="/wiki/Waldorf,_Maryland" title="Waldorf, Maryland">Waldorf, Maryland</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www1.pgcps.org/benjaminstoddert/">Benjamin Stoddert Middle School</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150403032348/http://www1.pgcps.org/benjaminstoddert/">Archived</a> 2015-04-03 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> in <a href="/w/index.php?title=Temple_Hills_(Marlow_Heights),_Maryland&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Temple Hills (Marlow Heights), Maryland (page does not exist)">Temple Hills (Marlow Heights), Maryland</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.stoddert.org/">Benjamin Stoddert Elementary School</a> in <a href="/wiki/Washington_D.C." class="mw-redirect" title="Washington D.C.">Washington D.C.</a></li></ul> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/Georgetown,_Washington,_D.C." class="mw-redirect" title="Georgetown, Washington, D.C.">Georgetown</a> section of Washington, DC, there was a Stoddert Street named after Benjamin Stoddert.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the <a href="/wiki/Georgetown_street_renaming" title="Georgetown street renaming">Georgetown street renaming</a> of 1895 the name was changed to Q Street NW. 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Gates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_L._Sullivan_(United_States_Navy)" title="John L. Sullivan (United States Navy)">Sullivan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/W._John_Kenney" title="W. John Kenney">Kenney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dan_A._Kimball" title="Dan A. Kimball">Kimball</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_P._Whitehair" title="Francis P. Whitehair">Whitehair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Thomas_(Secretary_of_the_Navy)" title="Charles Thomas (Secretary of the Navy)">Thomas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_S._Gates_Jr." title="Thomas S. Gates Jr.">T. Gates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_B._Franke" title="William B. Franke">Franke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fred_A._Bantz" title="Fred A. Bantz">Bantz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_B._Fay" title="Paul B. Fay">Fay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenneth_E._BeLieu" title="Kenneth E. BeLieu">BeLieu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_H._B._Baldwin" title="Robert H. B. Baldwin">Baldwin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_F._Baird" title="Charles F. Baird">Baird</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Warner" title="John Warner">Warner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_P._Sanders" title="Frank P. Sanders">Sanders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._William_Middendorf" title="J. William Middendorf">Middendorf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_S._Potter" title="David S. Potter">Potter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_R._Macdonald" title="David R. Macdonald">Macdonald</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._James_Woolsey_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="R. James Woolsey Jr.">Woolsey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_J._Murray" title="Robert J. Murray">Murray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_F._Goodrich" title="James F. Goodrich">Goodrich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_L._Garrett_III" title="Henry L. Garrett III">Garrett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._Daniel_Howard" title="J. Daniel Howard">Howard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Danzig" title="Richard Danzig">Danzig</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerry_MacArthur_Hultin" title="Jerry MacArthur Hultin">Hultin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_B._Pirie_Jr." title="Robert B. Pirie Jr.">Pirie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Susan_Livingstone" title="Susan Livingstone">Livingstone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dionel_M._Aviles" title="Dionel M. Aviles">Aviles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_O._Work" title="Robert O. Work">Work</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Janine_A._Davidson" title="Janine A. Davidson">Davidson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Modly" title="Thomas Modly">Modly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erik_Raven" title="Erik Raven">Raven</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Assistant_Secretary_of_the_Navy" class="mw-redirect" title="Assistant Secretary of the Navy">Assistant<br />Secretaries</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0;;wide"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Pre–1954</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gustavus_Fox" title="Gustavus Fox">Fox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Faxon" title="William Faxon">Faxon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_R._Soley" title="James R. Soley">Soley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_McAdoo_(New_Jersey_politician)" title="William McAdoo (New Jersey politician)">McAdoo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt" title="Theodore Roosevelt">T. Roosevelt Sr.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Herbert_Allen" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles Herbert Allen">Allen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_W._Hackett" title="Frank W. Hackett">Hackett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Hial_Darling" title="Charles Hial Darling">Darling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Truman_H._Newberry" title="Truman H. Newberry">Newberry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_L._Satterlee" title="Herbert L. Satterlee">Satterlee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beekman_Winthrop" title="Beekman Winthrop">Winthrop</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">F. Roosevelt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gordon_Woodbury" title="Gordon Woodbury">G. Woodbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt_Jr." title="Theodore Roosevelt Jr.">T. Roosevelt Jr.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theodore_Douglas_Robinson" title="Theodore Douglas Robinson">Robinson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernest_L._Jahncke" title="Ernest L. Jahncke">Jahncke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_L._Roosevelt" title="Henry L. Roosevelt">H. Roosevelt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Edison" title="Charles Edison">Edison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lewis_Compton" title="Lewis Compton">Compton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Austin_Bard" title="Ralph Austin Bard">Bard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H._Struve_Hensel" title="H. Struve Hensel">Hensel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/W._John_Kenney" title="W. John Kenney">Kenney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_E._Andrews" title="Mark E. Andrews">Andrews</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_T._Koehler" title="John T. Koehler">Koehler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_R._Askins" title="Herbert R. Askins">Askins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raymond_H._Fogler" title="Raymond H. Fogler">Fogler</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Post–1954</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Assistant_Secretary_of_the_Navy_(Financial_Management_and_Comptroller)" title="Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Financial Management and Comptroller)">Financial Management and Comptroller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Assistant_Secretary_of_the_Navy_(Energy,_Installations_and_Environment)" title="Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Energy, Installations and Environment)">Energy, Installations and Environment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Assistant_Secretary_of_the_Navy_(Manpower_and_Reserve_Affairs)" title="Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Manpower and Reserve Affairs)">Manpower and Reserve Affairs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Assistant_Secretary_of_the_Navy_(Research,_Development_and_Acquisition)" title="Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Development and Acquisition)">Research, Development and Acquisitions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/General_Counsel_of_the_Navy" title="General Counsel of the Navy">General Counsel of the Navy</a></li> <li>defunct: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Assistant_Secretary_of_the_Navy_(AIR)" title="Assistant Secretary of the Navy (AIR)">Air</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Assistant_Secretary_of_the_Navy_(Installations_and_Logistics)" title="Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Installations and Logistics)">Installations and Logistics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Assistant_Secretary_of_the_Navy_(Material)" title="Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Material)">Material</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Assistant_Secretary_of_the_Navy_(AIR)" title="Assistant Secretary of the Navy (AIR)">Research and Development</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Assistant_Secretary_of_the_Navy_(AIR)" title="Assistant Secretary of the Navy (AIR)">Research, Engineering and Systems</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Assistant_Secretary_of_the_Navy_(Shipbuilding_and_Logistics)" title="Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Shipbuilding and Logistics)">Shipbuilding and Logistics</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Cabinet_of_President_John_Adams_(1797–1801)" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist 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