Stephen Bleecker Luce

Stephen Bleecker Luce (born March 25, 1827, Albany, N.Y., U.S.—died July 28, 1917, Newport, R.I.) was the principal founder and first president of the Naval War College for postgraduate studies, the world’s first such institution. Starting his career in 1841 as a midshipman, Luce rose through the ranks to become a rear admiral (1886). From the beginning of his naval life, he wished to improve the education of seamen; to that end he published Seamanship...