Edwin Denby was an American lawyer and politician who served as Secretary of the Navy in the administrations of Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge from 1921 to 1924. He also played a notable role in the infamous Teapot Dome scandal which took place during the Harding presidency. He was the son of Charles Harvey Denby, grandson of Graham N. Fitch, brother of Charles Denby, Jr., and uncle of dance critic Edwin Orr Denby.
Edwin Denby (politician)
Denby as a Michigan Wolverines football player in 1896
Sergeant Edwin Denby, USMC in 1918
Denby shaking hands with his predecessor as Secretary of the Navy, Josephus Daniels
United States Secretary of the Navy
The secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) is a statutory officer and the head of the Department of the Navy, a military department within the United States Department of Defense.
United States Secretary of the Navy
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