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DON OGC History This is a listing of the Presidents, Secretaries of the Navy and the senior civilian attorney serving under them from 1862 to the present. SOLICITORS GENERAL OF THE NAVY 1862-1941 PRESIDENT SECRETARY OF THE NAVY SOLICITOR GENERAL Abraham Lincoln 4 Mar 1861- 15 Apr 1865 Gideon Welles 1861-1869 Nathaniel Wilson 1862 - Mar 1865 Andrew Johnson 15 Apr 1865 - 3 Mar 1869 William Eaton Chandler Mar 1865 - Fall 1865 John Augustus Bolles Fall 1865 - 25 May 1878 Ulysses S. Grant 4 Mar 1869 - 3 Mar 1877 Adolph E. Borie 1869 George M. Robeson 1869 - 1877 Rutherford B. Hayes 4 Mar 1877 - 3 Mar 1881 Richard W. Thompson 1877-1881 None William McKinley 4 Mar 1897 - 14 Sep 1901 John D. Long 1897-1901 Edwin P. Hanna 1 Jul 1899 - 3 Jul 1909 Theodore Roosevelt 14 Sep 1901 - 3 Mar 1909 William H. Moody 1901-1904 Paul Morton 1904-1905 Charles J. Bonaparte 1905-1906 Victor M. Metcalf 1906-1908 Truman H. Newberry 1908-1909 William Howard Taft 4 Mar 1909 - 3 Mar 1913 George von L. Meyer 1909-1913 Henry M. Butler 1 Feb 1910 - 31 Mar 1911 Tristam B. Johnson 1 Apr 1911 - 16 Jul 1911 Harry W. Miller 03 Jan 1912 - 9 Aug 1913 Woodrow Wilson 4 Mar 1913 - 3 Mar 1921 Josephus Daniels 1913-1921 Graham Egerton 1913-1921 Warren G. Harding 4 Mar 1921- 2 Aug 1923 Edwin Denby 1921-1924 Pickens Neagle 2 Sep 1921 - 30 Jun 1929 Calvin Coolidge 2 aug 1923 - 3 Mar 1929 Curtis D. Wilbur 1924-1929 Herbert Hoover 4 Mar 1929 - 3 Mar 1933 Charles Francis Adams 1929-1933 None GENERAL COUNSELS OF THE NAVY 1941 - 1996 PRESIDENT SECRETARY OF THE NAVY GENERAL COUNSEL Franklin D. Roosevelt 4 Mar 1933 - 12 Apr 1945 Franklin Knox 11 Jul 1940 - 28 Apr 1944 H. Struve Hensel 10 Jul 1941 - 30 Jan 1945 James V. Forrestal 19 May 1944- 17 Sep 1947 W. John Kenney 5 Feb 1945 - 2 Apr 1945 Harry S. Truman 12 Apr 1945 - 20 Jan 1953 Patrick H. Hodgson 3 Apr 1945 - 31 Oct 1945 J. Henry Neale 1 Nov 1945 - 26 Jul 1946 William Wemple 27 Jul 1946 - 23 Aug 1946 James T. Hill, Jr. 24 Aug 1946 - 15 May 1947 John L. Sullivan 18 Sep 1947 - 24 May 1949 Hudson B. Cox 16 May 1947 - 29 Apr 1949 Francis P. Matthews 25 May 1949 - 31 Jul 1951 Harold B. Gross 30 Apr 1949 - 30 Aug 1953 Dan A. Kimball 31 Jul 1951 - 20 Jan 1953 Dwight D. Eisenhower 20 Jan 1953 - 20 Jan 1961 Robert B. Anderson 04 Feb 1953 - 02 May 1954 F. Trowbridge vom Baur 15 Dec 1953 - 30 Apr 1960 Charles S. Thomas 3 May 1954 - 31 Mar 1957 Thomas S. Gates, Jr. 1 Apr 1957 - 7 Jun 1959 William B. Franke 8 Jun 1959 - 20 Jan 1961 Meritt H. Steger 2 May 1960 - 31 May 1971 John F. Kennedy 20 Jan 1961 - 22 Nov 1963 John B. Connally, Jr. 23 Jan 1961- - 20 Dec 1962 Fred H. Korth 3 Jan 1963 - 1 Nov 1963 Lyndon B. Johnson 22 Nov 1963 - 20 Jan 1969 Paul H. Nitze 27 Nov 1963 - 30 Jun 1967 Paul R. Ignatius 1 Sep 1967 - 24 Jan 1969 Richard M. Nixon 20 Jan 1969 - 9 Aug 1974 John H. Chafee 31 Jan 1969 - 4 May 1972 Hart T. Mankin 7 Jun 1971 - 21 Jul 1973 John W. Warner 4 May 1972 - 9 Apr 1974 E. Grey Lewis 1 Aug 1973 - 21 Apr 1977 Gerald R. Ford 9 Aug 1974 - 20 Jan 1977 J. William Middendorf, II 20 Jun 1974 - 20 Jan 1977 James Earl Carter 20 Jan 1977 - 20 Jan 1981 W. Graham Claytor, Jr. 14 Feb 1977 - 24 Aug 1979 Togo D. West, Jr. 22 Apr 1977 - 13 Jan 1979 Edward Hidalgo 24 Oct 1979 - 20 Jan 1981 Coleman Hicks 25 May 1979 - 13 Jan 1981 Ronald Reagan 20 Jan 1981- 20 Jan 1989 John Lehman, Jr. 5 Feb 1981 - 10 Apr 1987 Walter T. Skallerup, Jr. 24 Aug 1981 - 29 Jul 1987 James H. Webb, Jr. 10 Apr 1987 - 23 Feb 1988 Harvey J. Wilcox (Deputy GC) 29 Jul 1987 - 21 Nov 1988 William Ball May 1988 - Jan 1989 Lawrence L. Lamade 22 Nov 1988 - 21 Nov 1989 George Bush 20 Jan 1989 - 20 Jan 1993 W. Lawrence Garrett 1989 - 26 Jun 1992 Craig S. King 22 Nov 1989 - 20 Jan 1993 Sean O'Keefe 6 Jul 1992 - 20 Jan 1993 William J. Clinton 20 Jan 1993 - 20 Jan 2001 John H. Dalton 1993 - Nov 1998 Steven S. Honigman 1 Jun 1993 - 15 Mar 1998 Eugene Angrist (Deputy GC) 15 Mar 1998 - 28 Sep 1998 Richard Danzig Nov 1998 - Stephen W. Preston 28 Sep 1998 - 17 Nov 2000 Robert B. Pirie, Jr., (Acting) Nov 2000 - 24 May 2001 John E. Sparks (Acting) 17 Nov 2001 - 12 Dec 2000 William Molzahn (Deputy GC) 12 Dec 2000 - 25 Jul 2001 George W. Bush 20 Jan 2001 - Gordon R. England 24 May 2001 - 24 Jan 2003 Alberto Jose Mora 25 Jul 2001 -   Susan Morrisey Livingstone (Acting) 24 Jan 2003 - 7 Feb 2003 H. T. Johnson (Acting) 7 Feb 2003 - 1 Oct 2003 Gordon R. England 1 Oct 2003 - This web page was last updated on Sunday, September 26, 2004; at 2:16:48 AM

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