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	57k	Born on 5 April 1830, near Oswego, N.Y., Benjamin Franklin Tracy was reared on a farm and educated at Oswego Academy. Admitted to the New York Bar in 1851, Tracy served as district attorney of Tioga County, N.Y., from 1853 to 1859. Elected to the State Assembly in 1861, he urged full support of the national government in the Civil War. In the summer of 1862, Tracy raised the 109th and 137th New York Volunteer regiments and took the field as a colonel with the former. During the bloody Wilderness Campaign in the spring of 1864, he led his troops with conspicuous gallantry. Tracy's bravery and steadfastness in the arduous and difficult campaign won him the brevet rank of Brigadier-General and the Medal of Honor. For the remainder of the war, Tracy served as a colonel in the 127th Regiment and commanded the military prison and the recruiting camp at Elmira, N.Y. In 1866, after the end of the Civil War, President Andrew Johnson appointed Tracy district attorney for the eastern district of New York. In 1873, he resumed his private practice in Brooklyn, N.Y. From 1881 to 1882, he assumed duties as judge of the New York Court of Appeals. In 1889, President Benjamin Harrison appointed the lawyer to the post of Secretary of the Navy. He entered at once into the program of building up the Navy with new, modern ships and of enacting much-needed reforms. During his administration, battleships Iowa, Indiana, Massachusetts, and Oregon and cruiser Brooklyn were completed or authorized. He also organized the naval militia and established the Board of Construction and Repair to correlate the work of various bureaus. Following an active career in public service and leaving the Navy in better shape than he had found it upon taking office as Secretary, Tracy retired to his Tioga County farm where he raised horses until his death on 6 August 1915. Photo ID: cph 3c22054, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.		Bill Gonyo
	71k	Undated, location unknown.		Robert M. Cieri
	53k	USS Dahlgren (DD-187) and USS Tracy (DD-214). Undated, location unknown.		Paul Rebold
	122k	Undated, location unknown.		Paul Rebold
	163k	Undated, location unknown. Photo from the collection of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum.		Darryl Baker
	167k	Undated, location unknown. Photo from the collection of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum.		Darryl Baker
	160k	Undated, location unknown. Photo from the collection of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum.		Darryl Baker
	175k	Undated, at Bordeaux, France.		Richard Miller BMCS USNR RET.
	59k	Under construction.		Fred Weiss
	199k	The launching August 12 1919. From the book The Ships of the United States Navy and their Sponsors 1913-1923.		Mike Mohl
	64k	USS Tracy (DD-214) in Belfast Harbor, Northern Ireland in June, 1927. Source: Imperial War Museum by Belfast Telegraph Collection, Photo No. © IWM (HU 111345).		Mike Green
	123k	USS Tracy (DD-214) At anchor during the 1920s or 1930s. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Photo #: NH 60241.		Robert Hurst
	179k	The Tracy's crew in Norfolk, May 29 1926. Steve's dad is the shortest of the two men in the last row, he served from 1918 to 1946 and retired as a Lieutenant.		Steve Hill
	132k	1927 in Gibraltar.		Tommy Trampp
	301k	Balboa Harbor, Panama Canal Zone. Aerial photograph taken 23 April 1934, with U.S. Fleet cruisers and destroyers moored together. Ships present include (left to right in lower left): USS Elliot (DD-146); USS Roper (DD-147); USS Hale (DD-133); USS Dorsey (DD-117); USS Lea (DD-118); USS Rathburne (DD-113); USS Talbot (DD-114); USS Waters (DD-115); USS Dent (DD-116); USS Aaron Ward (DD-132); USS Buchanan (DD-131); USS Crowninshield (DD-134); USS Preble (DD-345); and USS William B. Preston (DD-344). (left to right in center): USS Yarnall (DD-143); USS Sands (DD-243); USS Lawrence (DD-250); (unidentified destroyer); USS Detroit (CL-8), Flagship, Destroyers Battle Force; USS Fox (DD-234); USS Greer (DD-145); USS Barney (DD-149); USS Tarbell (DD-142); and USS Chicago (CA-29), Flagship, Cruisers Scouting Force. (left to right across the top): USS Southard (DD-207); USS Chandler (DD-206); USS Farenholt (DD-332); USS Perry (DD-340); USS Wasmuth (DD-338); USS Trever (DD-339); USS Melville (AD-2); USS Truxtun (DD-229); USS McCormick (DD-223); USS MacLeish (DD-220); USS Simpson (DD-221); USS Hovey (DD-208); USS Long (DD-209); USS Litchfield (DD-336); USS Tracy (DD-214); USS Dahlgren (DD-187); USS Medusa (AR-1); USS Raleigh (CL-7), Flagship, Destroyers Scouting Force; USS Pruitt (DD-347); and USS J. Fred Talbott (DD-156); USS Dallas (DD-199); (four unidentified destroyers); and USS Indianapolis (CA-35), Flagship, Cruisers Scouting Force. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.		Fabio Peña
	178k	Scene from the 1940 movie Charlie Chan in Panama by 20th Century Fox, USS Dahlgren (DD-187) and USS Tracy (DD-214).		Joe Mackey

CDR Lawrence Penfield Treadwell Sr.    Mar 9 1920 - Feb 1921 
CDR William Alexander Glassford Jr.    Dec 28 1921 - Jul 13 1922 (Later VADM)
LCDR George Martin Baum    Jul 13 1922 - Jan 1 1923
CDR William Alexander Glassford Jr.    Jan 1 1923 - Dec 16 1924 (Later VADM)
CDR Sam Colby Loomis    Dec 16 1924 - Jun 18 1925
CDR Hamilton Freer Glover    Jun 18 1925 - May 16 1927
CDR Webb Cook Heyes    May 16 1927 - Jan 12 1928 (Later RADM)
LCDR Charles Adams Baker    Jan 12 1928 - May 1928
LCDR Valentine Wood    Jun 15 1929 - May 6 1931
LCDR Henry Jadwin Shields    May 6 1931 - May 6 1932
LCDR Thomas Dashiell Ross    May 6 1932 - Jun 25 1934
LCDR Wilbur William Feineman    Jun 25 1934 - Feb 4 1936
As the DM-19
CDR Robert Bruce Crichton    Feb 4 1936 - Jul 10 1939
LCDR John Harold Sides    Jul 10 1939 - Nov 20 1940 (Later ADM)
LCDR George Richardson Phelan    Nov 20 1940 - Apr 1 1942 (Later RADM)
CDR John Leon Collis    Apr 1 1942 - Oct 1 1943
CDR William Julius Richter    Oct 1 1943 - Nov 15 1943
LCDR Clayton Hayes Raney    Nov 15 1943 - Jan 1 1945 
LCDR Richard Edward Carpenter    Jan 1 1945 - Nov 17 1945
LT Joseph Paul Murphy Jr.    Nov 17 1945 - Jan 16 1946

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