Claude Swanson Navy Leadership

Claude Augustus Swanson

Claude Augustus Swanson was a politician who served as Governor of Virginia, U.S. Senator, and Secretary of the Navy under the F. Roosevelt administration. Drawing on his extensive experience as Chairman of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee, this 1862-born veteran powerfully pushed forward a policy of military expansion. Utilizing New Deal budgets during the Great Depression, he spearheaded a massive naval ship-building program (the Vinson-Trammell Act), laying the foundation for the overwhelming maritime power of the U.S. Navy in World War II.

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Year	Claude Augustus Swanson
1862	Birth of Claude Augustus Swanson (Period: March 31, 1862, Location: Swansonville, Virginia, United States (still remaining as an unincorporated community in Pittsylvania County))
1886	Acquisition of law degree from the University of Virginia (Claude Augustus Swanson, Age: 23 years old, Period: 1886, Location: Charlottesville, Virginia, United States)
1893	Election to the United States House of Representatives (Claude Augustus Swanson, Age: 30 years old, Period: 1893 to 1906, Location: Washington, D.C., United States)
1894	Marriage (Claude Augustus Swanson, Elizabeth Deane Lyons, Age: 32 years old, Period: December 11, 1894, Location: Washington, D.C., United States)
1901	Virginia Constitutional Convention and voter restrictions (Age: 38 years old, Period: 1901 to 1902, Location: Richmond, Virginia, United States)
1906	Election as Governor of Virginia (Claude Augustus Swanson, Age: 43 years old, Period: 1906 to 1910, Location: Richmond, Virginia, United States)
1910	Election to the United States Senate (Claude Augustus Swanson, Age: 47 years old, Period: 1910 to 1933, Location: Washington, D.C., United States)
1914	World War I (Age: 51 years old, Period: 1914-1918, Location: Battlefields centered on Europe, United States)
1918	Appointment as Chairman of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee (Claude Augustus Swanson, Age: 55 years old, Period: 1918 to 1919, Location: Washington, D.C., United States)
1923	Marriage (Claude Augustus Swanson, Lulie Lyons Hall, Age: 61 years old, Period: October 1923, Location: Surrounding Washington, D.C., United States)
1930	Senate deliberations on the London Naval Treaty (Age: 67 years old, Period: 1930, Location: Washington, D.C., United States)
1932	Participation in the Geneva Disarmament Conference (Age: 69 years old, Period: February to July 1932, Location: Geneva, Switzerland)
1933	Pre-World War II naval expansion (Age: 70 years old, Period: 1933 to 1939, Location: Washington, D.C. and U.S. naval bases, etc., United States) Appointment as Secretary of State (Claude Augustus Swanson - Note: actually Secretary of the Navy, Age: 70 years old, Period: March 1933 to July 1939, Location: Washington, D.C., United States)
1938	Enactment of a large peacetime naval budget (Age: 75 years old, Period: 1938, Location: Washington, D.C., United States)
1939	Death of Claude Augustus Swanson (Age: 77 years old, Period: July 7, 1939)

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The Wilson Family	Thomas Woodrow Wilson Ellen Louise Axson Edith Bolling Galt Wilson James Woodrow
The Roosevelt Administration	Franklin Delano Roosevelt Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Cordell Hull Claude Augustus Swanson Jesse Holman Jones Robert Houghwout Jackson
Southern politician	George Carter Glass James Francis Byrnes Thomas Terry Connally Claude Denson Pepper Alben William Barkley Byron Patton Harrison John Nance Garner

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