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| | DAVID DIXON PORTER - LoveToKnow Article on DAVID DIXON PORTER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07) |
 | | (1813-1891), American naval officer, son of Captain David Porter, was born in Chester, Pennsylvania, on the 8th of June 1813. |
 | | In April 1826 he entered the Mexican navy, of which his father was commander-in-chief, and which he left in 2828, after the capture by the Spanish of the Guerrero, on which he was serving under his cousin, David H. Porter (1804-1828), who was killed before the ships surrender. |
 | | He became a midshipman in the United States navy in 1829, and was in the coast survey in 1836-1842. |
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