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Glennon (JAMES HENRY American naval)

JAMES HENRY, American naval officer, born in French Gulch, Cal., in 1857. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1878. He was appointed ensign in 1882.

He rose through the various grades, becoming captain in 1909, and rear-admiral in 1916. During the Spanish- American War he served on the "Massachusetts," and was acting captain of the port of Havana in 1899. He commanded at various times the Navy Yard of New York, and other navy yards, and was a member of the Panama Fortifications Board. He was also president of the Board of Naval Ordnance and the Joint Army and Navy Board on gun forgings, in 1915. He was commander of the Navy Yard and superintendent of the Naval Gun Factory at Washington in 1915-1917. In the latter year he was a representative of the Navy Department with the American special mission to Russia. He was commander of Squadron One, of the Battleship Force of the Atlantic Fleet, in September, 1917, and was commander of the 5th Division of the Atlantic Fleet in 1918. In 1918-1919 he was commandant of the 13th Naval District.