| Flag Officers, January 1, 1896 |
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| The following is a list of the flag officers of the US Navy in January 1896. The list consist of only six Rear Admirals (the highest rank authorized by law following the deaths of Admiral David Porter and Vice-Admiral Stephen Rowan) and ten Commodores on the Active List, and a further 36 Rear Admirals and eight Commodores (coincidentally the same number as in 1892) on the retired list. It does not include officers who held flag rank solely because of their duty station, just those officers who had actually receievd permanent promotions. It also does not include retired staff officers with the relative rank of Rear Admiral or Commodore. The list is in order of seniority. For retired officers, Date of Rank is the date they reached the rank indicated on the active list (except for those idicated with a *, who achieved their rank only on the retired list). This list is organized without regard for which of the numeous retirement laws cited when the officers were placed on the retired list. |
| Active List |
| Name Rear Admiral George Brown Rear Admiral John Walker Rear Admiral Francis Ramsay Rear Admiral Charles Carpenter Rear Admiral William Kirkland Rear Admiral Lester Beardslee Commodore Thomas O. Selfridge Commodore Joseph N. Miller Commodore Montgomery Sicard Commodore Edmund Matthews Commodore Charles Norton Commodore Robert Pythian Commodore Rush Wallace Commodore Francis Bunce Commodore Frederick McNair Commodore John Howell |
| Date of Rank 27 September 1893 23 January 1894 11 April 1894 11 November 1894 01 March 1895 21 May 1895 11 April 1894 03 August 1894 10 July 1894 21 July 1894 31 July 1894 07 September 1894 11 November 1894 01 March 1895 10 May 1895 21 May 1895 |
| Duty Station Commandant, Navy Yard, Norfolk Chairman, Light House Board Chief, Bureau of Navigation Leave of Absence Waiting orders Commanding, Pacific Station Commanding, European Station (as RADM) Commandant, Navy Yard, Boston Commandant, Navy Yard, New York Chief, Bureau of Yards & Docks Commanding, South Atlantic Station (as RADM) Superintendent, Naval Observatory Commanding, Naval Station, Newport Commanding, North Atlantic Station (as RADM) Commanding, Asiatic Station, (as RADM) Commandant, Navy Yard, Washington |
| Retired List |
| Name Rear Admiral Thomas O. Selfridge* Rear Admiral Samuel Phillips Lee Rear Admiral Henry Walke Rear Admiral Joseph F. Green Rear Admiral John L. Worden Rear Admiral Roger N. Stembel* Rear Admiral Daniel Ammen Rear Admiral George B. Balch Rear Admiral Thomas H. Stevens Rear Admiral John M. B. Clitz Rear Admiral John C. Febiger Rear Admiral Peirce Crosby Rear Admiral Aaron K Hughes Rear Admiral Edmund R. Colhoun Rear Admiral Alexander C. Rhind Rear Admiral Thomas S. Phelps Rear Admiral John H. Upshur Rear Admiral Francis A. Roe Rear Admiral Samuel R. Franklin Rear Admiral Stephen B. Luce Rear Admiral James E. Jouett Rear Admiral John H. Russell Rear Admiral Lewis Kimberly Rear Admiral Bancroft Gherardi Rear Admiral Daniel L. Braine Rear Admiral George Belknap Rear Admiral David Harmony Rear Admiral Andrew Benham Rear Admiral John Irwin Rear Admiral James Greer Rear Admiral Aaron Weaver Rear Admiral Joseph Skerrett Rear Admiral Joseph Fyffe Rear Admiral Oscar Stanton Rear Admiral Henry Erben Rear Admiral Richard Meade Commodore Lewis C. Sartori Commodore Albert G. Clary Commodore Somerville Nicholson Commodore Oscar C. Badger Commodore William K. Mayo Commodore William P. McCann Commodore James H. Gillis Commodore Edward E. Potter |
| Date of Rank 25 July 1866* 22 April 1870 13 July 1870 13 July 1870 20 November 1872 5 June 1874* 11 December 1877 5 June 1878 27 October 1879 13 March 1880 4 February 1882 10 March 1882 2 July 1882 3 December 1882 30 October 1883 1 March 1884 1 October 1884 3 November 1884 24 January 1885 5 October 1885 19 February 1886 4 March 1886 26 January 1887 25 August 1887 4 September 1887 12 February 1889 26 March 1889 28 February 1890 19 May 1891 3 April 1892 27 June 1893 16 April 1894 10 July 1894 21 July 1894 31 July 1894 7 September 1894 12 December 1873 5 April 1874 22 January 1880 15 November 1881 2 July 1882 26 January 1887 29 January 1897 27 June 1893 |
| Date Retired 24 April 1866 13 February 1873 26 April 1881 25 November 1872 23 December 1886 27 December 1872 4 June 1878 3 January 1883 27 May 1881 16 October 1883 1 July 1882 29 October 1883 31 March 1884 6 May 1883 31 October 1883 2 November 1884 1 June 1885 4 October 1885 24 August 1887 25 March 1889 27 February 1890 27 August 1886 2 April 1892 10 November 1894 18 May 1891 22 January 1894 26 June 1893 10 April 1894 15 April 1894 28 February 1895 26 September 1893 9 July 1894 20 July 1894 30 July 1894 6 September 1894 20 May 1895 3 June 1874 3 June 1874 7 April 1881 12 August 1885 18 May 1886 4 May 1892 14 May 1893 9 May 1895 |
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