Archibald Scales

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Archibald H. Scales
Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy
Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, Josephus Daniels, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Scales (right) reviewing Naval Cadets at Annapolis
on 24 November 1919.

Archibald Henderson Scales (April 14, 1868 – February 16, 1952) was a rear admiral in the United States Navy. He was Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, from February 12, 1919, to July 5, 1921.[1]

Early life

Scales was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, to Junius Irving and Euphemia Hamilton (Henderson).[2] He was the nephew of Alfred Moore Scales, and attended public schools in Greensboro before entering the United States Naval Academy (USNA),[3] which he graduated from in 1887. Scales was made an ensign on July 1, 1889.[2]

Naval service

In 1895, Scales went on duty in Asia, on the ocean off of

junior lieutenant on August 28, 1897. He served on the USS Topeka during the Spanish–American War, fighting in the Battle of Nipe Bay.[2] He earned the Sampson Medal for service during that war.[3]

He went back to the USNA from 1906 to 1907, commanded the

Commander of the Order of Leopold.[3] Upon the end of the war, Scales assumed command of the Naval Station Great Lakes from December 1918 to February 1919.[2]

He then became Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy, where he handled a scandal. In 1921, he took command of

Fourth Naval District from 1923 until he retired in 1926. He was a delegate at the Transylvania Celebration in Kentucky and died at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Scales married Harriet Pierce Graham and had three children.[3]

References

  1. ISBN 9780807867006
    . Retrieved 23 February 2015 – via google.ca.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Leonard, John William; Marquis, Albert Nelson (1920). Who's who in America. A.N. Marquis. p. 2497.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Scales, Archibald Henderson". Dictionary of North Carolina Biography. Retrieved 2020-04-23.
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