Oliver Hazard Perry was an American naval commander, born in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. A prominent member
of the Perry family naval dynasty, he was the son of Sarah Wallace Alexander and United States Navy Captain Christopher Raymond Perry, and older brother of Commodore Matthew C. Perry.
A portrait of Oliver Hazard Perry in 1818 by Gilbert Stuart and Jane Stuart
Perry (standing) after abandoning Lawrence in a 1911 painting by Edward Percy Moran
USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) flies a replica "Don’t Give Up the Ship" flag in 2020
Mural: Battle of Lake Erie, September 10, 1813. (1959) by Charles Robert Patterson and Howard B. French, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. Niagara joins the battle. Detroit and Queen Charlotte at right.
The Perry family is an American naval and political dynasty from Rhode Island whose members have included several United States naval commanders, naval aviators, politicians, artists, clergymen, lawyers, physicians, and socialites. Progeny of a mid-17th-century English immigrant to South Kingstown, Rhode Island, the Perry family patriarch, Captain Christopher Raymond Perry, and his two sons Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry and Commodore Matthew C. Perry, were seminal figures in the legitimization of the United States Navy and establishment of the United States Naval Academy.
Portrait of Captain Oliver Hazard Perry, USN (1839) by Edward L. Mooney
Sarah Alexander was descended from an uncle of Scottish knight William Wallace
Oliver Hazard Perry
Matthew Calbraith Perry
