List of American mariners
Notable members of the United States Merchant Marine have included:
- Jim Bagby, Jr., Major League Baseball pitcher
- Raymond Bailey, actor
- Alvin Baldus, former Democratic member of Congress
- Alex Bonner, Emmy Award-winning radio and television producer
- Nathaniel Bowditch, author
- L. Brent Bozell, Jr., conservative activist and Catholic writer
- Lenny Bruce, comedian and poet
- Gordon Canfield, Republican congressman from New Jersey
- Alfonso J. Cervantes, forty-third Mayor of Saint Louis, Missouri
- Granville Conway, public servant, Presidential Medal for Merit recipient
- Harvey Cox, preeminent theologian and professor at Harvard Divinity School
- Joseph Curran, labor leader
- Richard Henry Dana, Jr., author
- Deborah Doane Dempsey, first American female master to command a cargo ship sailing internationally[1]
- Dan Devine, football coach
- Peter Falk, actor
- James Garner, actor
- Allen Ginsberg, poet
- Woody Guthrie, musician
- David Hackworth, retired United States Army colonel and prominent military journalist
- Sterling Hayden, actor and author
- Sadie O. Horton, who spent World War II working aboard a coastwise U.S. Merchant Marine barge, and posthumously received official veteran’s status for her wartime service in 2017, becoming the first recorded female Merchant Marine veteran of World War II.[2]
- Cisco Houston, folk singer
- Cornelius Johnson, Olympic medal-winning high jumper
- Irving Johnson, author, adventurer and sail training pioneer
- John Paul Jones, naval officer
- Jack Kerouac, author
- Joseph Stanley Kozlowski, AB, portrait and watercolor artist
- Leonard LaRue, naval officer who saved 14,000 lives during the Korean War
- Jack London, author
- Louis L'Amour, author
- Jack Lord, actor
- Jerry Marcus, cartoonist of comic strip Trudy
- Herman Melville, author
- Hugh Mulzac, master mariner and civil rights activist
- James Nachtwey, photojournalist and war photographer
- George H. O'Brien, Jr., Medal of Honor recipient in Korean War
- Jeremiah O'Brien, captain of the privateer Unity in the first battle of the Revolutionary War
- Carroll O'Connor, actor
- Jack Paar, created TV talk show; was replaced by Johnny Carson
- Mary Patten (1837–1861), only woman to take command of a clipper ship after the captain was incapacitated [3]
- Richard Phillips, held hostage by pirates and later rescued
- Richard Scott Prather, mystery novelist
- Denver Pyle, actor
- Joseph Resnick, Democratic congressman from New York
- Nelson Riddle, bandleader, arranger and orchestrator
- Ernie Schroeder, comic book artist
- Otto Scott, journalist and author
- Hubert Selby, Jr., author
- Frank Sinkwich, 1942 Heisman Trophy winner
- Gary Snyder, poet
- Joseph D. Stewart, Vice Admiral, Superintendent of the United States Merchant Marine Academy
- Montfort Stokes, Democratic Senator
- Oliver Stone, three-time Academy Award-winning film director and screenwriter
- Celia Sweet, first female pilot in San Diego Bay, 1912[4]
- Paul Teutul, Sr., founder of Orange County Choppers motorcycle manufacturer
- Jim Thorpe, Olympic athlete
- Eliza Thorrold, licensed tugboat master, San Francisco Bay, 1897[5]
- Mark Twain (born Samuel Clemens), author; inland waters
- Dave Van Ronk, folk singer nicknamed the "Mayor of MacDougal Street"
- Clint Walker, actor
- Jack Warden, actor
- John S. Watson, New Jersey politician
- Ted Weems, bandleader and musician
- Carlia Wescott, first American woman to be granted marine engineer's license, 1922[5]
- Haskell Wexler, Academy Award-winning cinematographer
- Nedd Willard (born 1928), writer, artist, journalist
- Charles Williams, writer of hardboiled crime fiction
- Robin Wilson, science fiction author and editor, and former President of California State University, Chico
- Charles Armijo Woodruff, 11th Governor of American Samoa
See also
References
- ^ http://www.womensmaritimeassoc.com/fall_2006_newsletter.pdf
- ^ "Horton first woman to earn veteran status as WWII merchant mariner". Daily Advance. 2017. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
- ^ http://members.aol.com/sailoreye/ShippingOut.pdf
- ^ http://www.lighthousedigest.com/digest/Storypage.cfm?storykey=1389
- ^ a b https://www.nps.gov/safr/historyculture/maritimewomenhistory.htm