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Photo # NH 419046:  Rear Admiral George H. Wadleigh, photographed circa 1902

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Rear Admiral George H. Wadleigh, USN (1842-1927)

George Henry Wadleigh was born in Dover, New Hampshire, on 28 September 1842. He attended the U.S. Naval Academy in 1860-1863, then had Civil War service in the Gulf of Mexico on the steam sloops Lackawanna and Richmond. In 1866-1869 Wadleigh was in European, Mediterranean and African waters as an officer of USS Ticonderoga, and received promotions to the ranks of Lieutenant and Lieutenant Commander during that time. During the following decade he had shore duty at the Naval Academy and several other facilities and was Executive Officer of the gunboat Shawmut, monitor Canonicus, schoolship Saint Mary's and sloop Pensacola. In 1881 he commanded USS Alliance during an arduous Arctic cruise searching for survivors of the ill-fated Jeannette expedition.

Commander Wadleigh spend most of the 1880s in shore positions. He returned to duty afloat in 1889-1891 as Commanding Officer of the Great Lakes gunboat Michigan. Promoted to Captain in mid-1894, he commanded the receiving ship Richmond until late in that year, then took command of the new cruiser Minneapolis, in which he cruised in U.S., West Indian and European waters into 1897. Captain Wadleigh served at the Boston Navy Yard until June 1898, including some very busy months near the end of that tour as the Navy prepared ships for Spanish-American War operations. From July 1898 until December 1901 he was Commanding Officer of the cruiser Philadelphia, in the Pacific, and the receiving ship Wabash at Boston. He achieved the rank of Rear Admiral in February 1902 and was briefly Commandant of the Philadelphia Navy Yard and President of the Board of Inspection and Survey before retiring from active duty in June of that year. In retirement, Rear Admiral Wadleigh made his home at Dover, New Hampshire. He died on 11 July 1927.

The destroyer Wadleigh (DD-689) was named in honor of Rear Admiral Wadleigh.

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Photo #: NH 41904

Rear Admiral George H. Wadleigh, USN


Portrait photograph, taken circa 1902.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 53367

"One Thousand Fifty Years of American History Makers"


Photograph of a gathering of retired Navy and Marine Corps flag officers, taken circa 1923. Those present are (left to right, in front row):
Rear Admiral Yates Stirling (born 1843);
Rear Admiral George C. Remey (born 1841);
Rear Admiral George H. Wadleigh (born 1842); and
Rear Admiral Theodore F. Jewell (born 1844).
(left to right, in middle row):
Rear Admiral William T. Swinburne (born 1847);
Rear Admiral Spencer S. Wood (born 1861);
Rear Admiral Colby M. Chester (born 1844);
Rear Admiral Albert Gleaves (born 1858); and
Rear Admiral Newton E. Mason (born 1850).
(left to right, in middle row):
Major General George F. Elliott (born 1846);
Rear Admiral Warner B. Bayley (born 1845);
Rear Admiral Joseph L. Jayne (born 1863);
Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske (born 1854); and
Rear Admiral Reginald F. Nicholson (born 1852).

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 111KB; 740 x 465 pixels

 


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