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Appointed by
  
Name
  
Benjamin Homans

Children
  
I. Smith Homans

Succeeded by
  
Succeeded by
  
Charles Hay


Preceded by
  
Charles W. Goldsborough

Benjamin Homans was an American merchant captain, and politician who served as the 4th Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth and who served from as the Chief Clerk of the Navy Department, which was at the time the second highest civilian position in the US Navy.

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Early career

Homans had been a merchant captain during the 1780s and 1790s. During the Quasi war with France, because of the Sedition Act and he was an ardent Jeffersonian Homans went into exile in Bordeaux.

War of 1812

Prior to the 1814 British attack, and Burning of Washington during the War of 1812, it was Homans, along with Dolley Madison who removed two wagon loads of the Navy Department's archives; including saving Charles Willson Peale's classic portrait of George Washington.

References

Benjamin Homans Wikipedia


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