DENBY & TR JR. TO HEAD HARDING'S NAVY DEPARTMENT
St. Augustine, Florida (JFK+50) On February 26, 1921, President-elect Warren G. Harding announced the appointment of Edwin Denby* as Secretary of the Navy and Lt. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.** as Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Mr. Harding said...
"I am delighted in both of them."
According to the New York Tribune...
"In these appointments, Mr. Harding gains advisers sincerely in sympathy with his own expressed reluctance to suspend the capital shipping program of the United States."
During the campaign, Lt. Col. Roosevelt "straddled a mule and rode through the mountains of Kentucky" in support of the Republican presidential nominee.
*Edwin Orr Denby (1870-1929) was born in Evansville, Indiana & graduated from the University of Michigan Law School (1896). EOD served in the US Navy & Marine Corps, in the US Congress 1905-1911 & as 42nd Navy Secretary 1921-1924.
**Theodore Roosevelt III, aka Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (1887-1944) was born in Cove Neck, NY the eldest son of Teddy & Edith Roosevelt. TR Jr. graduated from Harvard University in 1909 & served in both WWI & WWII. He led the assault on Utah Beach in the Normandy invasion & died of a heart attack one month later.
SOURCE
"Roosevelt to Help Denby Run the Navy," New York Tribune, February 27, 1921, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
