George M. Robeson
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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 Nav
George Robeson 1865 1880
USS Polaris in 1871
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Intelligent Whale, currently on display at the Washington Navy Yard
Adolph E. Borie
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Adolph Edward Borie was an American merchant and politician who briefly served as Secretary of the Navy in the Ulysses S. Grant administration in 1869.
George M. Robeson
…1869, to become United States Secretary of the Navy. On June 25, 1869, President Ulysses S. Grant appointed Robeson Secretary of the Navy, replacing Adolph E. Borie, who had resigned earlier that same day. Borie had found the duties of running the Navy Department demanding, and had apparently never particularly…
Adolph Borie, Brady Handy bw photo portrait, ca 1860 1875
In 1825, Borie graduated from the University of Pennsylvania at the age of 16.
Borie renamed USS Manayunk as USS Ajax on June 15, 1869.
Borie (standing in center foreground) purchasing in India while accompanying Grant on his trip around the world in 1877–1879.