Secretary of the Navy's Advisory Subcommittee on Naval History

The Secretary of the Navy's Advisory Subcommittee on Naval History was formally established in 1956 and is the second oldest of the historical advisory committee's within the Department of Defense.

History

Formally established as a committee of eleven civilians in 1956 as the Secretary of the Navy's Advisory Committee on Naval History, its direct and immediate antecedent was an "ad hoc" advisory committee that had met in 1952, 1954, and 1955. Its members are appointed by the Secretary of the Navy on the advice of the Director of Naval History to review and advise on the current and future plans of the Naval Historical Center. In 1996, the committee was made a subcommittee of the Department of Defense Historical Advisory Committee and reports directly to the Secretary of the Navy, and also to the Secretary of Defense through the Department of Defense Historical Advisory Committee.

Chairmen

The following, listed in chronological order, have served as chairmen of the committee. In those case where individuals have also served as individual members their names and dates are also shown separately for that service in the alphabetical list of members:

* Waldo G. Leland, 1955-1964

* Elmer L. Kayser, 1970-1972
* Walter Muir Whitehill, 1972-

Members

The following is an alphabetical list of committee members, who have served since 1952, with their dates of service as members. Committee chairs are listed above with their dates as chairmen:

* John D. Barnhardt, 1955-1963
* James Phinney Baxter III, 1952-1964
* Whitfield J. Bell, 1972-
* Samuel F. Bemis, 1955-1964
* Francis L. Berkeley, Jr.] , 1966-
* Julian P. Boyd, 1952-1966
* Marion L. Brewington, 1966-1974
* Edward E. Dale, 1952
* James T. Farrell, 1954
* Caryl P. Haskins, 1970-
* Robert Henry, 1954
* Jim Dan Hill, 1954-
* Donald D. Jackson, 1972-
* Elmer L. Kayser, 1952-1969
* John H. Kemble, 1961-
* Tibor Kerekes, 1952
* Leonard W. Labaree, 1966-1969
* Waldo G. Leland, 1952-1964
* Richard W. Leopold, 1955-
* William E. Lingelbach, 1956-1960
* Dumas Malone, 1954
* Elting E. Morison, 1972-
* Alan Nevins, 1956-1969
* Howard H. Peckham, 1972-
* Forrest C. Pogue, 1970-
* Gordon B. Turner, 1972-
* Walter P. Webb, 1954
* Walter Muir Whitehill, 1952-1972

ource

* Richard W. Leopold, "Historians and the Federal Government: Historical Advisory Committees: State, Defense, and the Atomic Energy Commission," "The Pacific Historical Review", vol. 44, No. 3. (Aug 1975), pp. 373-385.