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Official Christening and Launch USS MASON (DDG 87) Launch party: (L to R) Rear Admiral (RADM) W. E. Meyer, USN (Ret); RADM William W. Cobb Jr., NAVSEA PEO TSC; Honorable John E. Baldacci, Rep. Maine; Honorable Thomas H. Allen, Rep. Maine; Honorable Susan M. Collins, Senator-Maine; Captain R. Hepburn, USN; RADM James A. Johnson, CNO representative; The Honorable Gordon R. England, Secretary of eh Navy, Honorable Olympia J. Snowe, Senator, Maine, and ships sponsor; Mr. Allan C. Comeron, CEO General Dynamics Company; RADM David L. Brewer III, principal speaker, Matrons of Honor: Mrs. Kathleen Mason Bond and Mrs. Barbara B. Graham; Mr. James W. Graham; Mrs. C. Griffiths, Commander (CDR) David...

Officers and distinguished guests stand during the National Anthem at the commissioning ceremony for the guided missile destroyer USS ARLEIGH BURKE (DDG-51), one of the few ships named after a living person. From left: ADM L.A. Edney, CMDR. in chief, U.S. Atlantic Cmd./supreme allied CMDR., Atlantic; R. Perot, honorary Commissioning Fdn. Chmn; ADM D. E . Jeremiah, vice Chmn., Joint Chiefs of STAFF; H. L. Garrett III, secretary of the Navy; R.B. Cheney, secretary of defense and CMDR John G. Morgan Jr., commanding officer of the ARLEIGH BURKE

This group of congressmen is organizing for a vigorous fight to put the soldier's bonus bill through the House. From left to right, seated: Abe Mudock of Utah, A.J. May of Ky., Wright Pattman of Tex., Adolph Sabath of Ill., Clarence Cannon of Mo., William P. Connery Jr. of Massachusetts., (second row) Gerald J. Boileau of Wis., Jinnings Randolph of W.Va., Frank Hancock of N. Carolina, William M. Berlan of Penn., John E. Miller of Ark., James G. Scrugham of Nevada. (Back row) Martin Dies of Tex., Paul Kvale of Minn., Arthur H. Greenwood of Ind., James P. Richards of S. Carolina, William M. Colmer of Miss. and George A. Dondero of Mich

Retiring Senator John Tower, Texas, Chairman Senate Armed Services Committee, receives awards from etary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger, etary of the Services, John O. Marsh Jr., USA; John F. Lehman, USN, Verne Orr, USAF and MASTER CHIEF PETTY Officer, Navy, William H. Plackett assisted by Sergeant Major, Marine Command CHIEF MASTER Sergeant William B. Tapp Jr. Also in attendance were Defense etary William H. Taft IV, Joint Chiefs of STAFF; General John W. Vessey Jr., USA, Chairman, General John A. Wickham Jr., USA, Admiral James D. Watkins, USN, General Charles A. Gabriel, USAF and General Paul X. Kelly, USMC; Major General Colin L. Powell, USA, Military Assistant to the...

Members of the Official Party stand to render honors, during the Commissioning Ceremony for the US Navy (USN) Amphibious Transport Dock, USS SAN ANTONIO (LPD 17) (not shown), held pier side at Naval Station Ingleside, Texas (TX). Pictured foreground left-to-right: the Ships sponsor, US Senator, The Honorable Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX); US Deputy Secretary of Defense, The Honorable Gordon R. England; US Marine Corps (USMC) General (GEN) Michael W. Hagee, Commandant of the Marine Corps (CMC); and USN Admiral (ADM) Michael G. Mullen, CHIEF of Naval Operations (CNO)

Navy gets original commission of John Paul Jones. Washington, D.C., March 12. The orginal commission of John Paul Jones, as captian in the United States Navy, dated October 10, 1776, and issued under authority of the Continental Congress with signature of John Hancock as its president was presented to the Secretary of Navy Charles Edison today. Capt. H.A. Baldridge, U.S.N. retired, curator of the U.S. Naval Academy Museum, presented the valuable document to the secretary on behalf of the owner, John L. Senior of Glen Acres, Roxbury, Conn. who was not able to be present. The commission will be placed in the crypt of the Revolutionary War hero at the Naval Academy. Left to right: Admiral H.R. Stark, Chief of Naval Operations; Capt. H.A. Baldridge; Capt. Dudley Knox, Chief of Naval Records and Library; and Secretary Edison, 3-12-40

Senate Military Affairs Committee. Washington, D.C., July 2. The Senate Military Affairs Committee which today be a vote of 14 to 3 approved the nomination of Henry Stimson to be secretary of war. Front row, left to right: Senators H. Styles Bridges, New Hampshire; Warren R. Austin, Vermont; Morris Sheppard of Texas, chairman; Robert R. Reynolds, North Carolina; Elbert D. Thomas, Utah; and Sherman Minton, Indiana. Back row, left to right: Senators Chan Gurney, South Dakota; Lister Hill, Alabama; A.B. "Happy" Chandler, Kentucky; John Thomas, Idaho; H.H. Schwartz, Wyoming; Edwin C. Johnson, Colorado; and Sheridan Downey, Calif., 7-2-40

The United States in Congress assembled, to all who shall these presents greeting : Whereas in and by our commission, dated at Philadelphia, the fifteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, the Honorable John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Henry Laurens, and Thomas Jefferson ... with Richard Oswald ... did conclude and sign on the part of the United States of America and the crown of Great-Britain, articles in the words following ... Now know ye, that we the United States in Congress assembled, have ratified and confirmed ... the said articles ...

Official party at the christening and launch of the dock landing ship PEARL HARBOR (LSD-52). Top row, left to right, Brig. GEN. Frederick R. Lopez, USMCR, Assistant Division Commander 4th Marine Division; E. E. Shoults, PMS-377, Naval Sea Systems Command; CAPT. E. David Whidden, Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion and Repair, New Orleans; Rear Adm. Paul M. Robinson, USN, PED CLA, Naval Sea Systems Command; U.S. Representative C. W. Bill Young; CMDR James J. Byrd, Jr., USN, P.C.O. USS PEARL HARBOR; Adm. Jeremy Boorda, USN, CHIEF of Naval Operations; Brig. GEN. Randy West, USMC, representing the Commandant of the Marine Corps; Albert L. Bossier, Jr., Chairman, President, and CEO of ...

In Congress. The delegates of the United States of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia, to all unto whom these presents shall come, send greeting : know ye, that we have granted, and by these presents do grant, licence and authority to [blank] mariner, commander of the [blank] ... to fit out and set forth the said [blank] in a warlike manner, and by and with the said [blank] and the crew thereof ... to attack, subdue and take all ships and other vessels whatsoever carrying soldiers, arms ... or any other contraband goods to any of the British armies or ships of war employed against these United States ...

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Signed: Dated at [blank] By order of the Congress, [blank] president. Attest [blank].

LC copy signed in ms. by Henry Laurens, president, and attested by Charles Thomson, secretary.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

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privateering history revolution prizes etc congress delegates new hampshire massachusetts bay rhode island connecticut delaware maryland virginia north carolina south carolina georgia grant licence authority mariner commander manner crew attack ships vessels soldiers arms goods british armies british armies war 1777 massachusetts history of pennsylvania high resolution ultra high resolution documents from the continental congress and the constitutional convention 1774 1789 rare book and special collections division continental congress broadside collection library of congress united states continental congress paintings