David Dixon Porter
United States Navy admiral (1813-1891) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 77
David Dixon Porter was a United States Navy admiral and a member of one of the most distinguished families in the history of the U.S. Navy.
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~ David Farragut ~ David Dixon Porter ~Issue of 1937
Perry and Porter attacked and took San Juan Bautista (now Villahermosa) in the Second Battle of Tabasco.
Porter, on the right, in 1860. The other officers are Sidney Smith Lee and Samuel F. Du Pont.
Porter and George Gordon Meade
Admiral David Dixon Porter, ca. 1859-1870; from the Carte de Visite Collection of the Boston Public Library
Porter aboard the USS Malvern after the Second Battle of Fort Fisher.
The Peacemakers 1868 Painting, featuring, from left to right: Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, LTG Ulysses S. Grant, President Abraham Lincoln, and Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter aboard the River Queen in March 1865. Around a month before Porter's Tour of RichmondAbout this person
Promoted as the second U.S. Navy officer ever to attain the rank of admiral, after his adoptive brother David G. Farragut, Porter helped improve the Navy as the Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy after significant service in the American Civil War.
