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Photo # NH 49336:  Rear Admiral James H. Glennon, circa 1919

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Rear Admiral James H. Glennon, USN (1857-1940)

James H. Glennon was born on 11 February 1857 at French Gulch in Shasta County, California. He received his higher education at the U.S. Naval Academy, from which he graduated in 1878, and spent most of the following seven years in the Pacific on the warships Lackawanna, Alaska, Pensacola and Ranger. He returned to the Naval Academy for service in the training ship Constellation during the later 1880s. Promoted to Lieutenant (Junior Grade) in March 1889, he was assigned to the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, during the last five months of that year, then served in the cruiser Charleston. Glennon had further service at the Naval Academy in 1893-1896 and 1899-1900, during nearly all of which time he held the rank of Lieutenant. From mid-1896 to the end of 1898 he was an officer of the battleship Massachusetts, in which he participated in the Spanish-American War's Cuban campaign.

During the early 1900s, Lieutenant Commander Glennon served on the Asiatic Station, as Executive Officer of the gunboat Vicksburg and monitor Monterey. He also commanded the smaller gunboat General Alava and was in charge of the Nautical School at Manila. Stationed at Mare Island in 1904 and at the Bureau of Ordnance in Washington, D.C., in 1905-1907, Commander Glennon's next seagoing assignment was as Commanding Officer of the gunboat Yorktown in the Pacific in 1907 and 1908. Further shore duty at the New York Navy Yard was accompanied by promotion to Captain in October 1909. Over the next six years he commanded the battleships Virginia, Florida and Wyoming, as well as serving on boards dealing with Naval ordnance, a field in which he had extensive expertise.

In 1915-1917 Captain Glennon was Commandant of the Washington Navy Yard, D.C., and was promoted to Rear Admiral while in that post. He carried out a special mission to Russia during 1917, then had command of a series of Atlantic Fleet battleship divisions. Rear Admiral Glennon's final assignments were as Commandant of the Thirteenth Naval District, headquartered at Seattle, Washington, in late 1918 and early 1919, and the New York based Third Naval District from March 1919 until his retirement from active duty in February 1921. James H. Glennon died in Washington, D.C., on 29 May 1940.

Two destroyers have been named in honor of Rear Admiral Glennon: USS Glennon (DD-620) of 1942-1944, and USS Glennon (DD-840) of 1945-1981.

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Photo #: NH 49336

Rear Admiral James H. Glennon, USN
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Commandant, Third Naval District

Photographed at New York City, circa 1919.
Note details of his boat cloak.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 49335

Lieutenant Commander James H. Glennon, USN
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Executive Officer, USS Vicksburg (Gunboat # 11)

Seated on the deck of his ship, during operations in the Philippines, 1901.

Courtesy of Captain Fletcher L. Sheffield, USN.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 95153

U.S. Atlantic Fleet Change of Command Ceremony


On board USS Wyoming (Battleship # 32), circa 16 September 1914, probably at the New York Navy Yard. Rear Admiral Charles J. Badger is at right, reading his orders as he turns command over to Rear Admiral Frank Friday Fletcher (right center). Looking on, in left center, is Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske, aide for operations to the Secretary of the Navy. Some of the others present are identified on Photo # NH 95153 (complete caption).
The original print is stamped: "Photograph by the New York World. Walter C. Harris. Sep. 16 1914"

Collection of Rear Admiral Frank Friday Fletcher. Donated by Mrs. Robert D. Barnhart, 1975.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 74286

Washington Navy Yard, D.C.


Ceremony on the north porch of Building One, 1917.
The two officers standing second and third from the right are (respectively): Captain James H. Glennon and Captain A.L. Willard.
The building in the background is Building 76.
Note the old trophy cannon on display.

Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 53134

Rear Admiral James H. Glennon, USN
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Commandant, Third Naval District

Welcomes Lieutenant Commander Albert C. Read, Pilot of the NC-4 flying boat, to Hoboken, New Jersey, upon his return from Europe in June 1919.
At left, behind LCdr. Read, is Commander Holden C. Richardson.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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