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{{Short description|United States Navy admiral (1843–1908)}}
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{{Infobox military person
| name          = Arent Schuyler Crowninshield
| image         = Arent Schuyler Crowninshield (1843–1908).png
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| birth_date    = {{Birth date|1843|3|14}}
| death_date    = {{Death date and age|1908|5|14|1843|3|14}}
| placeofburial_label = Place of burial
| placeofburial = [[Arlington National Cemetery]]
| birth_place   = [[New York (state)|New York]], US
| death_place   = [[Philadelphia]], Pennsylvania, US
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|allegiance={{flagu|United States|1896}}
|branch={{Naval|United States|navy-1864}}
| serviceyears  = 1863&ndash;1902
| rank          = [[File:USN Rear Admiral rank insignia.jpg|border|23px]] [[Rear admiral (United States)|Rear admiral]]
| unit          =
| commands      = {{USS|Portsmouth|1843|2}}<br/>{{USS|St. Mary's|1844|2}}<br/>{{USS|Kearsarge|1861|2}}<br/>{{USS|Maine|ACR-1|2}}
| battles       = [[American Civil War]]<br/>[[Spanish–American War]]
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| relations     = [[Crowninshield family]]
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'''Arent Schuyler Crowninshield''' (March 14, 1843 – May 27, 1908) was a [[Rear admiral (United States)|rear admiral]] of the [[United States Navy]]. He saw combat during the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], and after the war held high commands both afloat and ashore.
==Early life==
Born in [[New York (state)|New York]], he was the grandson of [[Jacob Crowninshield]] (appointed Navy secretary under [[Thomas Jefferson|President Jefferson]], but who died before taking up the office), and grandnephew of [[George Crowninshield Jr.]] (adventuring owner of ''[[Cleopatra's Barge]]'', first yacht to cross the Atlantic) and [[Benjamin Williams Crowninshield]], [[United States Secretary of the Navy]] from 1815 to 1818. Some sources give his first name as Alton.
==Education and career==
Arent graduated from the [[United States Naval Academy]] on May 28, 1863<ref name="Navy Officers">{{cite web|url=http://www.history.navy.mil/books/callahan/reg-usn-c.htm |title=US Navy Officers: 1778–1900|publisher=history.navy.mil |accessdate=9 August 2010| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100707222815/http://www.history.navy.mil/books/callahan/reg-usn-c.htm| archivedate=7 July 2010 | url-status=live}}</ref> and immediately went into action in the [[American Civil War]], participating in the [[Second Battle of Fort Fisher|assault on Fort Fisher]] while serving on the [[steam sloop]] {{USS|Ticonderoga|1862|2}}.<ref name=tucker>[https://books.google.com/books?id=yYfSbFGFWlUC&dq=Crowninshield+fort+fisher&pg=PA144 ''The Encyclopedia of the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars'']</ref>
After the war, he rose steadily through the ranks, becoming [[lieutenant]] on November 10, 1866,<ref name="Navy Officers" /> and [[commander]] on March 25, 1880.<ref name="Navy Officers" />
He commanded the training ship {{USS|Portsmouth|1843|2}} from 1878 to 1881,<ref name="Navy Officers" /> the [[school ship]] {{USS|St. Mary's|1844|2}} of the [[State University of New York Maritime College|New York Nautical School]] from 1887 to 1891,<ref name="Navy Officers" /> and the [[sloop-of-war]] {{USS|Kearsarge|1861|2}} from February 1892 to November 1893.<ref name="Navy Officers" />
Promoted to [[Captain (naval)|captain]] on July 21, 1894,<ref name="Navy Officers" /> he took command of the new [[battleship]] {{USS|Maine|ACR-1|2}} at her commissioning in 1895, leaving in 1897 to become chief of the [[Bureau of Navigation (United States Navy)|Bureau of Navigation]] with the rank of Rear Admiral.<ref name="Navy Officers" />
During the 1898 [[Spanish–American War]], Crowninshield was appointed to the Naval War Board,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/spanam/people/pers-wbd/pers-wbd.htm |title=Spanish–American War: Naval War Board Members |publisher=history.navy.mil |accessdate=9 August 2010| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100707161441/http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/spanam/people/pers-wbd/pers-wbd.htm| archivedate=7 July 2010 | url-status=live}}</ref> and had a large part in the United States Naval operations planning that resulted in resounding victories like the [[Battle of Manila Bay]]. He retired from the Navy in April 1902, completing 39 years on active service.
Admiral Crowninshield was a member of the [[Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States]].
Rear Admiral Crowninshield died in [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]], on May 27, 1908, and is buried in [[Arlington National Cemetery]].<ref name=tucker/><ref>[http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/ascrowninshield.htm Arlington National Cemetery]</ref>
==Personal life==
He married Mary Bradford (1844–1913), daughter of the writer [[Sarah Hopkins Bradford]], in [[Dresden, Germany]], on July 27, 1870. His wife became a published writer herself.
==References==
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==External links==
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*[https://www.usna.edu/Library/sca/man-findingaids/MS_033.EAD.xml Arent S. Crowninshield Memoirs, 1896-1910 MS 33] held by Special Collections & Archives, Nimitz Library at the United States Naval Academy
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