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    Adolph Edward Borie (November 25, 1809 – February 5, 1880) was a United States merchant and politician who briefly served (1869) as Secretary of the Navy...
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    the first ship named for Ulysses S. Grant's Secretary of the Navy, Adolph E. Borie. She served in the Black Sea, the Asiatic Fleet and the Caribbean between...
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    USS Borie (DD-704), an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Adolph E. Borie, Secretary of the...
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  • Navy during World War II USS Borie (DD-704), an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer in the United States Navy Adolph E. Borie (1809–1880), United States merchant...
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    opposition by some in Congress, who forced the Secretary of the Navy Adolph E. Borie to resign. His replacement, George Robeson, curtailed Porter's power...
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    club's presidents have included Captain James Biddle, George H. Boker, Adolph E. Borie, General George Cadwalader, Mayor Richard Vaux, and Owen Wister, who...
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    George S. Boutwell Secretary of Treasury. Philadelphia businessman Adolph E. Borie was appointed Secretary of Navy, but found the job stressful and resigned...
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  • Bonnell (1802–1840), West Point graduate, hero of the Texas Revolution Adolph E. Borie (1809–1880), Secretary of the Navy John Bouvier (1781–1851), jurist...
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    C. § 8013) to "conduct all the affairs of the Department of the Navy", i.e. as its chief executive officer, subject to the limits of the law, and the...
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    Philadelphia business person Adolph E. Borie. Finding the job stressful, Borie resigned from office on June 25, 1869. Borie's noted accomplishment was the...
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    USS Ajax (1864) by the prominent Philadelphian Secretary of the Navy Adolph E. Borie and saw action in the Spanish–American War. The second ship to be named...
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    American Civil War the Order's constitution provided for honorary members (i.e. Third Class Companions) who were civilians who had made significant contributions...
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    Philadelphia Union League included Cyrus McCormick, Robert Todd Lincoln, Adolph E. Borie, Daniel Burnham, William D. Boyce, Charles D. Barney, and George J...
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    Secretary of Navy by President Ulysses S. Grant in 1869 after Sec. Adolph E. Borie had resigned office. His tenure lasted about seven and a half years...
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    Bond, ornithologist; namesake of Ian Fleming's fictional secret agent Adolph E. Borie merchant, civil war financier, Secretary of the Navy Joseph S. Clark...
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  • President Joseph R. Biden, director of the Penn Biden Center 2018–2020 Adolph E. Borie: US secretary of the Navy under President Ulysses S. Grant William...
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  • Railroad's current board. Powell brought up matters of outside dealings of Adolph E. Borie, and his brother-in-law H. Pratt McKean, and Gowen was unable to accept...
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    in Washington, D.C. Cultural depictions of Franklin D. Roosevelt August Adolph Gennerich – his bodyguard List of Allied World War II conferences Sunshine...
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    Haute Cabrière, La Petite Provence, La Bourgogne, La Motte, La Bri, La Borie, La Chataigne and La Roche. Huguenot Huguenot Monument Huguenot Memorial...
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    estate was built in 1912 as a summer cottage for Christine Penrose and Adolph G. Rosengarten Sr., the latter of whom was the head of Rosengarten & Sons...
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    William Faxon June 1, 1866 March 3, 1869 Andrew Johnson Gideon Welles, Adolph Edward Borie, George Maxwell Robeson, Richard Wigginton Thompson, Nathan Goff...
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  • department are then voted on by the entire membership. Contents:  Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Robert Adams, 2014 Jennifer Bartlett...
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    from SIRIS. Kvaran & Lockley New Haven County Courthouse, from SIRIS. Mary E. O'Leary, New Haven Superior Courthouse once again a jewel on the Green, New...
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  • SS Melville E. Stone was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Melville Elijah Stone (August 22, 1848 – February...
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    arrival of Grant's son Fred, and former navy secretary and good friend Adolph Borie. From Queenstown, the Grants left by private ship, sailing into the Mediterranean...
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    Dewey  United States AC Horace Trumbauer  United States AC Zantzinger, Borie & Medary  United States AC Léopold Bévière  France AC Louis Bonnier  France...
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    (DE-170/FF-170) USS Bordelon (DD-881/DDR-881) USS Boreas (AF-8) USS Borer (1814) USS Borie (DD-215, DD-704) USS Borum (DE-790/APD-82) USS Bosque (APA-135) USS Boston...
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    architect Paul Philippe Cret as the lead architect and the firm of Zantzinger, Borie and Medary as associated architects, with Detroit architectural firms of...
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