George M. Robeson
✓ Source-basedfallingNew Jersey politician, United States Representative (1829-1897)
George Maxwell Robeson was an American politician and lawyer from New Jersey. He served as Attorney General for the State of New Jersey from 1867 to 1869, until being appointed as Secretary of the Navy by President Ulysses S. Grant, in 1869, remaining in that post until 1877. S.
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USS Polaris in 1871
Charles Francis Hall
Intelligent Whale, currently on display at the Washington Navy Yard
USS Alarm was the United States' first purpose-built ramming spar torpedo warship, commissioned in 1873, during Robeson's term in office
The Spanish Butchery: illustrations of the U.S. naval response over the Virginius incident (Harper's Weekly, 1873)
USS MiantonomohOrdered by Secretary Robeson in 1874 to modernize and strengthen the U.S. Navy.Launched December 5, 1876
USS Intrepid, the United States' first propelled-torpedo warship, was ordered by Secretary Robeson and commissioned in 1874.Politicians from United States 6
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George Maxwell Robeson was an American politician and lawyer from New Jersey. He served as Attorney General for the State of New Jersey from 1867 to 1869, until being appointed as Secretary of the Navy by President Ulysses S. Grant, in 1869, remaining in that post until 1877. A member of the Republican Party, he also served two terms as a U.S. Representative for New Jersey from 1879 to 1883.
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