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 Encyclopedia: Benjamin Williams Crowninshield   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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.
On his passing in 1851, Benjamin Williams Crowninshield was interred in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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 Crowninshield
Benjamin Williams Crowninshield, born 27 December 1772 in Boston, Mass., was a member of the well-known family of Salem shipowners and seafarers, and commanded a merchant ship before he was 20.
Crowninshield cruised along the Atlantic coast and in the Caribbean, participating in 1921 in the fleet concentration in the Canal Zone and Cuban waters.
Recommissioned 30 September 1939, Crowninshield sailed from Mare Island 25 November and arrived at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 10 December for duty with the Neutrality Patrol in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico.
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Jacob Crowninshield, brother of Benjamin Williams Crowninshield, was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1770.
Crowninshield moved on to Washington, D.C., in 1803, joining Congress as a representative from Massachusetts.
In 1805, President Thomas Jefferson offered Crowninshield a position as secretary of the Navy following former secretary Robert Smith's request to transfer from that post to the office of attorney general; he was quickly confirmed by the Senate.
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 Jacob Crowninshield - Wikpedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Jacob Crowninshield (March 31, 1770–April 15, 1808) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts and appointee to the position of U.S. Secretary of the Navy but never served.
His brother Benjamin Williams Crowninshield did successfully hold the post; the Crowninshield family in general was prominent in early American maritime affairs.
Born in Salem, Massachusetts, he was first a businessman.
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 Benjamin Williams Crowninshield - Wikpedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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 (DD-134)">USS Crowninshield (DD-134) was named in his honor.
This page was last modified 19:28, 7 Jan 2005.
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Letter to Commodore William Bainbridge of the U.S. Navy Yard in Charleston, S.C. December 18, 1813.
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 Autographs and Ephemera Gray, Maine Page-6   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Bull was designated as “Agent for paying pensioners.” Filing data given on verso.
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 Peabody Essex Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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.
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