Solicitor General of the Navy

The Solicitor General of the Navy was an office of the United States Department of the Navy that existed periodically from 1862 until 1929. In 1941, it was superseded by the permanent office of General Counsel of the Navy. The Solicitor General of the Navy was the senior legal adviser to the United States Secretary of the Navy.

## Solicitors General of the Navy, 1862–1929

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Name  | Assumed office  | Left office  | President appointed by

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Nathaniel Wilson | 1862  | March 1865  | Abraham Lincoln
William E. Chandler | March 1865  | Fall 1865  | Abraham Lincoln
John Augustus Bolles | Fall 1865  | May 25, 1878  | Andrew Johnson
Edwin P. Hanna | July 1, 1899  | July 3, 1909  | William McKinley
Henry M. Butler | February 1, 1910  | March 31, 1911  | William Howard Taft
Tristam B. Johnson | April 1, 1911  | July 16, 1911  | William Howard Taft
Harry W. Miller | January 3, 1912  | August 9, 1913  | William Howard Taft
Graham Egerton | 1913  | 1921  | Woodrow Wilson
Pickens Neagle | September 2, 1921  | June 30, 1929  | Warren G. Harding

## References

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* History of the Office of General Counsel of the Navy