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Charles Lee Lewis
1886–1951
A naval historian and longtime professor at the U.S. Naval Academy, he wrote lively biographies that helped bring major American sea figures to a wider audience. His work on officers such as Matthew Fontaine Maury, Franklin Buchanan, Stephen Decatur, and David Glasgow Farragut made him a familiar name in naval history.
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Matthew Fontaine Maury, the Pathfinder of the Seas
by Charles Lee Lewis
About the author
Born in 1886, Charles Lee Lewis was an American historian, teacher, and writer whose career became closely tied to the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis. Reliable contemporary sources describe him as a prominent naval historian and a professor of English and history there.
He is best remembered for writing biographies of important naval figures, including Matthew Fontaine Maury, Franklin Buchanan, Stephen Decatur, and David Glasgow Farragut. Later Naval Institute writing noted that his Farragut biography remained in print for many years as a leading work on the subject, which gives a good sense of the respect his scholarship earned.
Lewis also published essays and articles on maritime literature and naval subjects, combining academic knowledge with an accessible style. He died in 1951.