Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime History

Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime History

In May 1948, the President of the Naval War College Admiral Raymond Spruance recommended a plan to establish a civilian professorship of maritime history at the Naval War College. Approved by Secretary of the Navy John L. Sullivan (Navy) on 29 December 1948, the post was not filledfor lack of fundsuntil 1951, when Thomas C. Mendenhall of Yale University was appointed to the position. In 1953, Secretary of the Navy Robert Bernard Anderson named the chair in honor of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, recognizing Kings great personal interest in maritime history. The Ernest J. King chair was named and first filled during the tenure of Professor Clarence H. Haring. At that point, there was only one other named academic chair in the United States for the field of maritime history, that held by the Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs established at Harvard University in 1948. The Naval War Colleges first permanent long-term civilian faculty member came in 1966 and its larger civilian faculty began in 1972. Between 1951 and 1973, the King Chair was regularly held as a one-year visiting appointment. It became a permanent faculty appointment in 1974.

List of Professors

1951-1952 Thomas C. Mendenhall (historian), Yale University

1952-1953 John H. Kemble, Pomona College

1953-1954 Clarence H. Haring, Harvard University

1954-1955 James A. Field, Jr, Swarthmore College

1955-1956 Hiram M. Stout, CIA

1956-1957 Ollinger Crenshaw, W & L. University

1957-1958 Gordon B. Turner, Princeton University

1958-1959 Lawrence O. Ealy, Temple University

1959-1960 James A. Huston, Purdue University

1960-1961 Edward A. Younger, University of Virginia

1961-1962 Charles A. Jellison, University of New Hampshire

1962-1963 Theodore Ropp, Duke University

1963-1964 William R. Emerson, Yale University

1964-1965 Boleslaw B. Szczesniak, University of Notre Dame

1965-1966 C. J. Smith, University of Georgia

1966-1967 H.L. Coles, Ohio State University

1976-1968 Raymond G. OConnor, Temple University

1968-1969 Gerald E. Wheeler, San Jose State College

1969-1970 Stephen E. Ambrose, Johns Hopkins University

1970-1971 Thaddeus V. Tuleja, St Peters College

1971-1973 Martin Blumenson, Acadia University

1973-1974 J. Kenneth McDonald, George Washington University

1974-1980 Philip A. Crowl

1980-1984 Vacant

1984-Pres John Hattendorf


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