Papers, 1944 -2000.

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Papers, 1944 -2000.

Correspondence, subject files, reports and writings make up the majority of the collection that includes material on his government service and teaching appointment at the Naval War College. Correspondence with U.S. Naval Institute, President Gerald Ford and Paul McCloskey; speeches given as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Maritime Affairs and later, 1969-1986; published and unpublished writings on shipping and maritime topics, 1978-1995; subject files on the Panamanian election and the Panama Canal Treaties; pamphlets on maritime topics; annual reports of the Maritime Administration; deck logs of SS Leonidas Merritt, 1945-46; photographs of career situations and Operation Just Cause; viewgraphs for Naval War College courses; videotapes; miscellany. 1944-2000.

Manuscript collection.

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Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006

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Gerald Rudolph Ford, the 38th President of the United States, was born Leslie Lynch King, Jr., the son of Leslie Lynch King and Dorothy Ayer Gardner King, on July 14, 1913, in Omaha, Nebraska. His parents separated two weeks after his birth, and his mother took him to Grand Rapids, Michigan, to live with her parents. On February 1, 1916, approximately two years after her divorce was final, Dorothy King married Gerald R. Ford, a Grand Rapids paint salesman. The Fords began calling her son Gerald ...

United States. Maritime Administration

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McCloskey, Paul N., 1927-

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United States representative from California, 1967-1983. From the description of Paul N. McCloskey papers, 1967-1983. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754871978 Biographical Chronology 1927 September 29 Born, Loma Linda, California 1945 1947 Se...

Gibson, Andrew, 1922-

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Andrew E. Gibson was born on February 19, 1922 and graduated from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy in 1943. He was CO of the Liberty Ship SS Leonidas Merritt from 1944 to 1946. He graduated from Brown University in 1951, received an MBA from New York University in 1979 and a Ph.D. from the University of Wales, Cardiff in 1994. He served as Maritime Administrator and Under Secretary of Commerce for Maritime Affairs, 1969-1972. Gibson headed a number of shipping companies both before and after l...

Naval War College (U.S.)

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Leonidas Merritt (Liberty ship)

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