- Harry Truman
Harry Randall Truman (October 30, 1896 - May 18, 1980) came to brief fame as a resident of the U.S. state of Washington who lived near Mount St. Helens and died in its 1980 eruption after stubbornly refusing to leave. He was the owner of Mount St. Helens Lodge at Spirit Lake, not Spirit Lake Lodge as sometimes reported. He became a minor celebrity during the two months of volcanic activity preceding the eruption, … - Samuel B. Roberts
Samuel Booker Roberts, Jr. (12 May 1921 - 27 September 1942) was a U.S. Navy coxswain who was killed in the Battle of Guadalcanal, and became the namesake of three U.S. Navy warships. Roberts was born in San Francisco, California, on May 12, 1921. He enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve in 1939 and was called to active duty in 1940. Roberts served aboard the USS "California" (BB-44) and the transport USS "Heywood" (AP-12), … - Stephen Decatur
Commodore Stephen Decatur, Jr was an American naval officer notable for his heroism in the Barbary Wars and in the War of 1812. He was the youngest man to reach the rank of captain in the history of the U.S. Navy, and the first American celebrated as a national military hero who had not played a role in the American Revolution. - David Farragut
Admiral David Glasgow Farragut (July 5, 1801 - August 14, 1870) was the first senior officer of the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War. He was the first rear admiral, vice admiral, and full admiral of the Navy. He is remembered in popular culture for his possibly apocryphal order at the Battle of Mobile Bay, usually paraphrased: "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!". - Hendrik Hertzberg
Hendrik Hertzberg (b. 1943) is an American journalist, best known as the principal (and left-leaning) political commentator for "The New Yorker" magazine. He has also been a speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter and editor of "The New Republic", and is the author of "Politics: Observations & Arguments". The son of Sidney Hertzberg, a journalist and political activist, and Hazel Whitman Hertzberg, … - Rogue Warrior
"Rogue Warrior", by Richard Marcinko, is an account of how he founded two U.S. Navy counter-terrorist units, SEAL Team SIX and Red Cell. Commanding Red Cell, he was directed to use them to test the Navy's anti-terrorist capabilities. During the tests, Red Cell was able to infiltrate supposedly impenetrable, highly secured bases, nuclear submarines, ships and other "secure areas", including the Presidential plane Air Force One. - James Robertson
James Robertson (born 1938) is a judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. James Robertson was appointed a United States District Judge by President Bill Clinton in 1994. Chief Justice William Rehnquist later placed him on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. On December 20, 2005, Judge Robertson resigned his Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court position. After graduating from Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio, … - Carroll Quigley
Carroll Quigley (November 9, 1910 - January 3, 1977) was a noted historian, polymath, and theorist of the evolution of civilizations. His books on the Anglo-American elite found a wide readership outside of academic circles. - Charles Swift
Charles D. Swift is a Lieutenant Commander (LCDR) in the U.S. Navy, Judge Advocate General's Corps. He is assigned to the Department of Defense Office of Military Commissions and is most famous for having served as defense counsel for Salim Ahmed Hamdan. Hamdan, a former driver for Osama bin Laden captured during the invasion of Afghanistan, was charged in July 2004 with conspiracy to commit terrorism. - Hyman G. Rickover
Admiral Hyman George Rickover, U.S. Navy, (January 27, 1900 – July 8, 1986) was known as the "Father of the Nuclear Navy", which as of July 2007 had produced 200 nuclear-powered submarines, and 23 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and cruisers, though many of these U.S. vessels are now decommissioned and others under construction. With his unique personality, political connections, responsibilities and depth of knowledge regarding naval nuclear propulsion, … - Matthew Diaz
Lieutenant Commander (LCDR) Matthew M. Diaz is a former staff judge advocate in the U.S. Navy, Judge Advocate General's Corps. In mid-to-late 2004, Diaz served a six month tour of duty in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba as deputy director of the detention center's legal office. Early in 2005 as LCDR Diaz was concluding his tour, he sent an anonymous note to a New York civil liberties group containing the names of the detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. - John Harris
John Harris, Captain of the Forecastle, was an officer in the U.S. Navy who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his service on the USS "Metacomet" in Mobile Bay during the American Civil War. On August 5, 1864, the "Metacomet" was part of a Union flotilla, lead by Admiral David Farragutl, which penetrated Confederate defenses and sealed Southern port at Mobile Bay. - Thomas Walker
Vice Admiral Thomas J. Walker was a U.S. Navy officer who served as first commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS "Constellation". - Scott Speicher
Michael Scott Speicher was a U.S. Navy pilot whose F/A-18 Hornet fighter was reportedly shot down by an air-to-air missile fired from an Iraqi MiG-25 the first night of Operation Desert Storm on January 17, 1991; since then there has been no evidence of his death, nor any evidence that he is still alive. There is much controversy over the possibility that he might have survived and been taken prisoner by the Iraqis. - Bruce Smith
Bruce P. Smith (February 8, 1920 - August 28, 1967), nicknamed "Boo", was an American football player best known for winning the Heisman Trophy in 1941. Smith was born in Faribault, Minnesota where he excelled in prep football under legendary football coach Win Brockmeyer and then attended the University of Minnesota. He played halfback for the back to back national champions Gophers in 1940 and 1941. He received the Heisman two days after the attack on Pearl Harbor. - Arthur W. Radford
Arthur William Radford (February 27, 1896 - August 17, 1973) was an U.S. Navy Admiral, Commander-in-Chief of the United States Pacific Command and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Arthur Radford was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1896. After graduating from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland in 1916, Radford served on board the USS South Carolina. - Jim Saxton
Hugh James "Jim" Saxton (born January 22 1943) is an American Republican Party politician. He has been a member of the United States House of Representatives since 1984. He represented from 1984 to 1993. Since 1993, he has represented, (map), which is essentially a renumbering of his previous district due to reapportionment after the 1990 census. - Robert Walker
Robert J. Walker, known as Bob Walker, (born 2 February 1929), was the third Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy. He was born in Baldwin, New York and attended grammar and high school in Oxford, New York. Enlisting in the U.S. Navy in 1948, Master Chief Walker received his recruit training at the Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, Illinois, where he was cited as company honorman. He then attended Radarman "A" School in Boston, … - Trammell Crow
F. Trammell Crow (born June 11, 1914, in Dallas, Texas) is an American property developer who created several famous projects, including Dallas Market Center, Peachtree Center (Atlanta, Georgia), and San Francisco's Embarcadero Center. - Matthew C. Perry
Matthew Calbraith Perry (April 10, 1794 - March 4, 1858) was the Commodore of the U.S. Navy who compelled the opening of Japan to the West with the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854. - Dennis C. Blair
Dennis Blair (born 1946) is the immediate past President of the Institute for Defense Analyses, a U.S. Government think-tank in the Washington D.C. area focused on national security. Blair was born in Kittery, Maine in 1946, and was a 6th generation naval officer. He attended St. Andrew's School (1964) and, as a classmate of Oliver North and James H. Webb, graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1968. - Jack Davis
Jack Davis (born September 6 1935) was a Republican member of the Illinois House of Representatives from 1976 to 1986, and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1987-1989 representing Illinois' 4th U.S. Congressional District. In 1988 he was defeated by Democrat George E. Sangmeister. Jack Davis has a B.A. from Southern Illinois University. Davis served in the U.S. Navy from 1956 to 1959, and operated a steel warehouse from 1976 to 1986. - Brian Lamb
Brian Patrick Lamb (born October 9, 1941) helped found the C-SPAN television network in 1979, and has been its chief executive officer since its founding. He hosts "Washington Journal" once a week, and hosted the C-SPAN show "Booknotes" from 1989 to 2004. Lamb now hosts a weekly one-hour program called "Q&A" in which he interviews people from a wide range of backgrounds, such as journalists, teachers, politicians, authors, and technology innovators. - Jose Rivera
Jose Rivera is a member of the New York State Assembly, representing the Fordham, New York section of the Bronx. A prominent New York democrat, Mr. Rivera was elected to the Assembly in 2002, and is the head of the Democratic Party in the Bronx. This is Mr. Rivera's second stint in the State Assembly; prior to his current stint, Mr. Rivera was from 1987 to 2001 a member of the New York City Council, and from 1982 to 1987 a member of the State Assembly. - David R. Ray
David Robert Ray ("Bobby") was born on 14 February 1945 to David F. and Donnie M. Ray of McMinnville, Tennessee. He graduated from City High School in McMinnville in 1963. He was a University of Tennessee Alumni Scholarship winner and attended classes at the Knoxville campus from 1963 to 1966. He voluntarily enlisted in the U.S. Navy in Nashville, Tennessee on 28 March 1966 and reported to Recruit Training Command, Naval Training Center, San Diego, California. - Alberto J. Mora
Alberto J. Mora is a recently retired General Counsel of the U.S. Navy. He led an effort within the Defense Department to oppose the legal theories of John Yoo and to try to end coercive interrogation tactics at Guantanamo Bay, which he argued are unlawful. - David L. Brewer III
David L. Brewer III (born May 19, 1946, in Florida) and attended elementary and secondary schools in Orlando, Florida. He is the son of David L. Brewer, Jr., and Mildred S. Brewer, retired educators in the Orlando area. On October 12, 2006, Brewer was unanimously selected by the Los Angeles Board of Education as the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District. Brewer succeeded former Colorado Governor Roy Romer November 13, 2006 as the new superintendent. - Bob Stump
Robert Lee (Bob) Stump (April 4, 1927 - June 20, 2003) was a U.S. Congressman from Arizona. Stump was born in Phoenix and was a U.S. Navy World War II combat veteran, where he served on the USS Tulagi from 1943-1946. He graduated from Tolleson High School in 1947, and Arizona State University in 1951. For many years, he owned a cotton and grain farm in the Phoenix suburb of Tolleson. He served four terms in the Arizona House of Representatives from 1959-1967, … - Ali Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri
Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri is a citizen of Qatar who was arrested while studying at Bradley University in the United States. Al-Marri was arrested in December 2001 and held in civilian jails in Peoria, Illinois, and New York City as a material witness. His brother, Jarallah al-Marri, was captured in January 2002 and transported to military detention at United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. In 2002, Ali was charged with financial crimes. - Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr.
Elmo Russell Zumwalt, Jr. (November 29, 1920 - January 2, 2000) was an American naval leader and the youngest man to serve as Chief of Naval Operations. As an admiral and later the 19th Chief of Naval Operations in the U.S. Navy, Zumwalt played a major part in the Vietnam War. A highly decorated war veteran, Zumwalt reformed Naval personnel policies in an effort to improve enlisted life and ease racial tensions. After he retired from a 32-year Navy career, … - Presley O'Bannon
Presley Neville O’Bannon was an officer in the United States Marine Corps, famous for his exploits in the First Barbary War. He received a sword for his role in restoring Prince Hamet Karamali to his throne at Tripoli in recognition of his bravery. That sword became the model for the Mameluke Sword adopted in 1825 as the Marine officers' sword that is still part of the dress uniform today. - Henry H. Arnold
General of the Air Force Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold GCB (June 25, 1886 – January 15, 1950) was an aviation pioneer and Chief of the United States Army Air Corps (from 1938), Commanding General of the U.S. Army Air Forces (from 1941 until 1945) and the first and only General of the Air Force (in 1949). He is also the only American to achieve five-star rank in two of its armed services. - John Philip Holland
John Philip Holland (29 February, 1840 -12 August, 1914) was an engineer who developed the first submarine to be formally commissioned by the U.S. Navy (though not the first American submarine, see American Civil War submarines, and the earlier "Nautilus" and "Turtle") and the first ever Royal Navy submarine, the "Holland 1". - Jeremiah Denton
Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr. (born July 15 1924 in Mobile, Alabama) is a retired U.S. Navy admiral and a former U.S. senator of the Republican party. He spent almost eight years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam and later wrote a book about his experiences. - Armistead Maupin
Armistead Jones Maupin Jr. (born) is an American writer best known for his "Tales of the City" series of novels based in San Francisco. - William E. Caswell
William Caswell was a U.S. Navy physicist. He died on September 11, 2001 as an airline passenger on American Flight 77 headed toward the Pentagon. - Walter Cunningham
Ronnie Walter "Walt" Cunningham (born March 16, 1932) is a retired American astronaut. Cunningham was born in Creston, Iowa. After graduating from Venice High School (where he now has a building named for him) in California, Cunningham joined the U.S. Navy in 1951 and began flight training in 1952. He served on active duty with the U.S. Marine Corps from 1953 until 1956. Cunningham received bachelor of arts and master of arts degrees in respectively 1960 and 1961, … - Hank Thompson
Hank Thompson (born September 3, 1925 in Waco, Texas) is a country music entertainer whose career has spanned seven decades and who has sold over 60 million records worldwide. Thompson's musical style, characterized as Honky Tonk Swing, is a mixture of big-band instrumentation, fiddle and steel guitar that supports his distinctive, gravelly baritone vocals on songs he often writes himself. - J. William Middendorf
John William Middendorf II (born September 22 1924 in Baltimore, Maryland) was a Republican United States diplomat. Middendorf received a Bachelor of Naval Science from College of the Holy Cross in 1945 and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University in 1947. He also graduated from New York University Graduate School of Business Administration, receiving an M.B.A. in 1954. and served in the U.S. Navy from 1944 to 1946, fighting in the Pacific Theater of World War II. - Barry Black
Barry C. Black is the 62nd Chaplain of the United States Senate. He was elected to this position on June 27, 2003, becoming the first African-American, the first Seventh-day Adventist, and the first military chaplain to hold the office of chaplain to the United States Senate. The Senate elected its first chaplain in 1789. He previously served for over 27 years as a chaplain in the U.S. Navy, …
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