Naval Consulting Board
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The Naval Consulting Board, also known as the Naval Advisory Board, was a US Navy organization established in 1915 by Josephus Daniels, the Secretary of the Navy at the suggestion of Thomas Alva Ediso
William Lawrence Saunders was chairman of the Naval Consulting Board in 1916
Thomas Robins was an American inventor involved in the Naval Consulting Board.
Josephus Daniels
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Josephus Daniels was a white supremacist, newspaper editor, Secretary of the Navy under President Woodrow Wilson, and U.S. Ambassador to Mexico under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Naval Consulting Board
…Board, also known as the Naval Advisory Board (a name used in the 1880s for two previous committees), was a US Navy organization established in 1915 by Josephus Daniels, the Secretary of the Navy at the suggestion of Thomas Alva Edison. Daniels created the Board with membership drawn from eleven engineering and scientific…
Daniels c. 1920
Letter from Daniels confirming that the Navy Cross was conferred on Ernesto Burzagli in the name of the President of the United States in 1919. Captain Burzagli was an officer in the Royal Italian Navy.
Daniels (right) shaking hands with his successor as Secretary of the Navy, Edwin Denby.
Frank A. Daniels II (right) with brother Jonathan W. Daniels (left), sons of Josephus Daniels, in 1915