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Samuel Eliot Morison (1887 - 1976) A. B., Harvard (1908), Ph. D., Harvard, (1912). Taught at University of California, Berkeley and Oxford for brief periods, but was at Harvard for most of a 40 year career, retiring in 1955 as Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History. Author of over 40 books, and 100 articles, Prof. Morison was commissioned by President Roosevelt to write the official history of the U. S. Navy in WW II, and he retired from the Navy in 1951 with the rank of Rear Admiral. Admiral Morison was a descendant of Mary Collier/Joseph Spear, of Hull, and U. S. Senator Harrison Gray Otis, of Boston.
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