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  Benjamin Williams Crowninshield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Benjamin Williams Crowninshield (December 27, 1772–February 3, 1851) served as the fifth United States Secretary of the Navy between 1815 and 1818, during the administrations of Presidents James Madison and James Monroe.
Crowninshield was born in Salem, Massachusetts the son of a sea captain and merchant of the Boston Brahmin Crowninshield family.
Crowninshield became Secretary of the Navy in January 1815, at the end of the War of 1812, and managed the transition to a peacetime force.
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 Benjamin Williams Crowninshield - free-definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Benjamin Williams Crowninshield (1772 - 1851) served as the fifth United States Secretary of the Navy between 1815 and 1818, during the administrations of Presidents James Madison and James Monroe.
Crowninshield was born in Salem, Massachusetts, on 27 December 1772.
Son of a sea captain and merchant of the Boston Brahmin Crowninshield family, he worked in the family shipping business, served at sea, and was also active in politics.
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 Benjamin Williams Crowninshield article - Benjamin Williams Crowninshield 1772 1851 Secretary the Navy 1815 1818 James ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Benjamin Williams Crowninshield (1772 - 1851), a member of the prominent Crowninshield family of Massachusetts, served as the fifth United States Secretary of the Navy between 1815 and 1818, during the administrations of Presidents James Madison and James Monroe.
Crowninshield served in Congress from 1823-1831 as a United States Representative from Massachusetts.
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 Crawford. William
Crowninshield, Benjamin W. (1772-1851) Secretary of the Navy: Benjamin Crowninshield was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 27, 1772; received an English education and became a businessman in Salem, Massachusetts.
Crowninshield maintained this post in Monroe's administration, and resigned in 1818.
Crowninshield died in Boston, on April 14, 1808.
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 American Memory from the Library of Congress - Browse by   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Benjamin W. Crowninshield to James Madison, December 26, 1814.
Benjamin W. Crowninshield to James Madison, December 28, 1814.
Benjamin Waterhouse to James Madison, December 12, 1822.
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 American President
Benjamin Crowninshield was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1772, and began his professional life in the business of commercial shipping, working for a number of years as a merchant in the employ of his father's merchandising firm.
Crowninshield remained at that post when James Monroe succeeded Madison as President in 1817, but he resigned the following year, leaving Monroe's cabinet in 1818.
Crowninshield resumed his political career in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, serving for one year in 1821.
www.americanpresident.org /history/jamesmonroe/cabinet/secretaryofthenavy/BenjaminWCrowninshield/email.html   (183 words)

  
 Williams
Williams was born in 1781; they had one son, also named Benjamin.
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Benjamin Williams Leader Benjamin Williams Leader RA artist, was born in 1833 at Worcester as Benjamin Leader Williams,...
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 Benjamin C. Bradlee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee (born August 26, 1921) is the vice president of the Washington Post.
As managing editor of the Post from 1965 to 1991, he challenged the federal government over the right to publish the Pentagon papers.
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 US People--Crowninshield, Benjamin W, Secretary of the Navy, 1815-1818.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Benjamin William Crowninshield was born in Salem, Massachusetts, on 27 December 1772.
Son of a sea captain and merchant, he worked in the family shipping business, served at sea, and was also active in politics.
USS Crowninshield (DD-134), 1919-1940, was named in honor of Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Crowninshield.
www.history.navy.mil /photos/pers-us/uspers-c/b-crwnsd.htm   (309 words)

  
 Jacob Crowninshield
CROWNINSHIELD, Jacob, congressman, born in Salem, Massachusetts, 31 March 1770; died in Washington, D. C., 14 April 1808.
He was appointed secretary of the navy by President Jefferson on 3 March 1805, but never entered upon his duties, owing to his rapid decline and death, the result of consumption.
--Benjamin Williams's grandson, Frederic Crowninshield, artist, born in Boston, Massachusetts, 27 November 1845, was graduated at Harvard in 1866, and began the study of water-color drawing in London in 1867 under Rowbotham, devoting himself to landscape-painting in water-colors and in oil.
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With a copy of an extract of Thomas Jefferson's letter of appointment to Benjamin H. Latrobe.","","18/0000","0005dq.jpg","5","5","","0005d.jpg" "Benjamin H. Latrobe to James Madison, April 24, 1816.
With a copy of an extract of Thomas Jefferson's letter of appointment to Benjamin H. Latrobe.","","18/0000","0009q.jpg","9","9","","0009.jpg" "Henry Jackson to James Madison, April 26, 1816.","","18/0000","0010dq.jpg","10","10","","0010d.jpg" "Henry Jackson to James Madison, April 26, 1816.","","18/0000","0011q.jpg","11","11","","0011.jpg" "Henry Jackson to James Madison, April 26, 1816.","","18/0000","0012q.jpg","12","12","","0012.jpg" "Richard M. Johnson to James Madison, April 26, 1816.
Docketed JE 28.","","18/0100","0146q.jpg","146","146","","0146.jpg" "William H. Crawford to James Madison, June 22, 1816.","","18/0100","0147dq.jpg","147","147","","0147d.jpg" "William H. Crawford to James Madison, June 22, 1816.","","18/0100","0148q.jpg","148","148","","0148.jpg" "Benjamin W. Crowninshield to James Madison, June 23, 1816.
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With Bill of Lading.","","17/0200","0237dq.jpg","237","237","","0237d.jpg" "Benjamin Huger to James Madison, March 27, 1815.","","17/0200","0238dq.jpg","238","238","","0238d.jpg" "Benjamin Huger to James Madison, March 27, 1815.","","17/0200","0239q.jpg","239","239","","0239.jpg" "George Graham to James Madison, March 30, 1815.","","17/0200","0240dq.jpg","240","240","","0240d.jpg" "George Graham to James Madison, March 30, 1815.","","17/0200","0241q.jpg","241","241","","0241.jpg" "James Madison to James Monroe, May, 1815.
In French.","","17/0700","0747q.jpg","747","747","","0747.jpg" "P. Stephen Chazotte to James Madison, September 26, 1815.","","17/0700","0748dq.jpg","748","748","","0748d.jpg" "Benjamin W. Crowninshield to James Madison, September 27, 1815.","","17/0700","0749dq.jpg","749","749","","0749d.jpg" "Benjamin W. Crowninshield to James Madison, September 27, 1815.","","17/0700","0750q.jpg","750","750","","0750.jpg" "Benjamin W. Crowninshield to James Madison, September 28, 1815.","","17/0700","0751dq.jpg","751","751","","0751d.jpg" "Benjamin W. Crowninshield to James Madison, September 28, 1815.","","17/0700","0752q.jpg","752","752","","0752.jpg" "Crawford, September 30, 1815.
Account.","","17/1100","1102dq.jpg","1102","1102","","1102d.jpg" "Benjamin Aydelott to James Madison, April 5, 1816.
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 PRESIDENT JAMES MADISON - NAVAL APPOINTMENT SIGNED 12/10/1814 CO-SIGNED BY: BENJAMIN W. CROWNINSHIELD
JAMES MADISON and BENJAMIN W. President Madison appoints a Master Commandant in the Navy during the War of 1812.
BENJAMIN WILLIAM CROWNINSHIELD (1772-1851), son of a sea captain and merchant, had worked in the family shipping business and served at sea before being nominated as Secretary of the Navy by President Madison on December 15, 1814.
Crowninshield, in one of his first acts, signed at the lower left beneath the words: "The lowest number of the same date gives rank".
www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/8_2001/presidents/PRESIDENT_JAMES_MADISON.htm   (402 words)

  
 BENJAMIN W. CROWNINSHIELD - MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT SIGNED 04/01/1815
BENJAMIN W. Manuscript LS: "B.W. Crowninshield" as Madison's Secretary of the Navy, 1p, 8x10.
CROWNINSHIELD served as Secretary of the Navy under Presidents Madison and Monroe (1814-1818).
In 1813, JOHN ORDE CREIGHTON became the Commander of the brig Rattlesnake, with the rank of Master-Commandant, and was made Captain on April 27, 1816.
www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/8_2003/politicians/BENJAMIN_W_CROWNINSHIELD.htm   (256 words)

  
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Part one is a portrayal of the war and Benjamin's participation in it, and Harriett's role as housekeeper.
Based on the first-hand accounts and embellished with vintage photographs, this young reader's history brings to life extraordinary existence of the common soldier in the American Civil War.
At fifteen years of age, Rawlings enlisted in the 1st South Carolina Volunteers and participated in the bombing of Fort Sumter.
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 Oak Knoll Books & Oak Knoll Press
Crowninshield, Benjamin W. Cambridge Printed at the Riverside Press 1941 8vo.
Reprint of part of Benjamin Crowninshield's diary from his days in college at Harvard.
History of the Crowninshield family from Johannes Caspar Richter von Kronenscheldt who landed in Boston in 1684 to Francis (Keno) Crowninshield who sailed up and down the East Coast on Cleopatra's Barge II with his wife Louise (du Pont).
www.oakknoll.com /results.php?s_Criteria=%28Topics%20LIKE%20%27%25US-DE%25%27%29%0D%0AAND%0D%0A%28Topics%20LIKE%20%27%25DU%20PONT%25%27%29&s_PresetName=Delaware%20Books%20-%20Du%20Pont   (568 words)

  
 Commentary Magazine - A Good Life by Ben Bradlee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee is without question one of the great American newspapermen of the century; the word Watergate alone would serve to place him in that not always admirable pantheon.
...Mark's prep school paid for by his cousin Frank Crowninshield, founder of Vanity Fair and in-law to the DuPonts...
...BENJAMIN CROWNINSHIELD BRADLEE is without question one of the great American newspapermen of the century...
www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V101I1P68-1.htm   (1531 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - Benjamin Williams Crowninshield
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Benjamin Williams Crowninshield (1772–1851) served as the fifth United States Secretary of the Navy between 1815 and 1818, during the administrations of Presidents James Madison and James Monroe.
This article incorporates public domain text from the Naval Historical Center.
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Benjamin_Williams_Crowninshield   (386 words)

  
 The Harvard Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Crimson was officially designated as Harvard's color by a vote of the Harvard Corporation in 1910.
A pair of rowers, Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, and Benjamin W. Crowninshield, Class of 1858, provided crimson scarves to their teammates so that spectators could differentiate Harvard's crew team from other teams during a regatta in 1858.
Eliot became Harvard's 21st president in 1869 and served until 1909; the Corporation vote to make the color of Eliot's bandannas the official color came soon after he stepped down.
www.tnfsh.tn.edu.tw /teach/eng/web/Harvard/www.news.harvard.edu/guide/lore/lore5.html   (222 words)

  
 AUTOGRAPHS & MANUSCRIPTS: PRESIDENT JOHN QUINCY ADAMS - INSCRIBED SPEECH SIGNED 07/04/1831
Oration inscribed to Cabinet Secretary Crowninshield, delivered the day President Monroe died, July 4, 1831.
BENJAMIN CROWNINSHIELD served in Madison's and Monroe's cabinets as Secretary of the Navy and had represented Massachusetts in Congress until 1831, the year Adams returned to Congress.
This speech commemorates the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the drafting of the Constitution and Adams' opposition to the nullification issue, which he believed to be illegal and dangerous to the Union.
www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/6_2004/speech/5031-PRESIDENT-JOHN-QUINCY-ADAMS.htm   (392 words)

  
 Peabody Essex Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Benjamin Williams Crowninshield was Secretary of the Navy from 1815-1818.  His papers are found in the Crowninshield Family Papers.
Benjamin Williams Crowninshield was Secretary of the Navy from 1815-1818.
This collection includes pension claims for soldiers and sailors in the Revolutionary War.
www.history.navy.mil /sources/ma/qwx.htm   (116 words)

  
 U.S. Civil War Regimental Histories in the Library of Congress. Union Troops: Massachusetts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Author: Babbitt, Benjamin B. Title: A sermon on the death of Walter L. Raymond, a Union soldier, delivered on Sunday, April 3, 1865, by Benjamin B. Babbitt...
Title: A history of the First Regiment of Massachusetts Cavalry Volunteers [microform] / Benjamin W. Crowninshield ; with roster and statistics by D.H.L. GLeason, for the First Massachusetts Cavalry Association.
Title: A history of the First regiment of Massachusetts cavalry volunteers, by Benjamin W. Crowninshield...
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 Corinthian Yacht Club
The Club's certificate of incorporation was filed on January 17, 1888, listing as members Benjamin W. Crowninshield, John B. Rhodes, Irving S. Palmer, Everett Paine, Frank E. Peabody, William S. Eaton Jr., George A. Stewart, William W. Whitcomb, George W. Tyner and C.H.W. Foster.
The Club now had yachtsmen and summer residents as officers to oversee its operation.
The first commodore was Benjamin W. Crowninshield, who was related to then-Secretary of the Navy Crowninshield.
www.corinthianyc.org /history62.html   (875 words)

  
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There was the Crowninshield family, for example, with five brothers all in command of ships before they were old enough to vote and at one time all five away from Salem, each in his own vessel and three of them in the East India trade.
Of the three Silsbee brothers, "each of us obtained the command of vessels and the consignment of their cargoes before attaining the age of twenty years, viz., myself at the age of eighteen and a half, my brother William at nineteen and a half, and my brother Zachariah before he was twenty years old.
As second mate in the Benjamin had sailed Richard Cleveland, another matured mariner of nineteen, who crowded into one life an Odyssey of adventure noteworthy even in that era and who had the knack of writing about it with rare skill and spirit.
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 PRIVATE JOURNAL, 1856-1858.|A - CROWNINSHIELD, BENJAMIN W.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
CROWNINSHIELD, BENJAMIN W. Cambridge, Printed at the Riverside Press, 1941.
¶ Reprint of part of Benjamin Crowninshield's diary from his days in college at Harvard.
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 AN ACCOUNT OF THE YACHT, CLEOPATRA'S BARGE, BUILT AT SALEM IN 1816.. - CROWNINSHIELD, BENJAMIN W,   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
AN ACCOUNT OF THE YACHT, CLEOPATRA'S BARGE, BUILT AT SALEM IN 1816..
CROWNINSHIELD, BENJAMIN W, CROWNINSHIELD, Benjamin W. Salem, Massachusetts: Salem Press, 1889.
An account of the building and sailing of the second yacht built in America.
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