| 词条 | Richard Wainwright (Medal of Honor) |
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|name= Richard Wainwright |birth_date= {{Birth date|1881|9|15}} |death_date= {{Death date and age|1944|3|28|1881|9|15}} |birth_place= Washington, D.C. |death_place= Annapolis, Maryland |placeofburial= United States Naval Academy Cemetery |placeofburial_label= Place of burial |image= Richard Wainwright Jr USNA.jpg |caption= Wainwright as a U.S. Naval Academy midshipman |nickname=Dick[1] |allegiance={{flagu|United States|1912}} |branch={{Naval|United States|navy-1864}} |serviceyears= 1903–1921 |rank= Commander |commands= Landing force from the {{USS|Florida|BB-30}} |unit= |battles= Veracruz (1914) |awards= Medal of Honor |laterwork= |relations=son of Admiral Richard Wainwright }} Richard Wainwright, Jr. (September 15, 1881 – March 28, 1944), was an officer in the United States Navy during World War I who received the Medal of Honor for actions during the 1914 Veracruz action. BiographyBorn in Washington, D.C., the son of Evelyn Wotherspoon and Richard Wainwright. He was the grandson of Sarah Franklin Bache and Richard Wainwright. He was the great-grandson of Richard Bache, Jr., who served in the Republic of Texas navy and was elected to serve in the Texas legislature and Sophia Burrell Dallas, the daughter of Arabella Maria Smith and Alexander J. Dallas an American statesman who served as the U.S. Treasury Secretary under President James Madison. He was also great-great-grandson of Sarah Franklin Bache and Richard Bache, and a great-great-great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin.[2] His uncle was Admiral Seaton Schroeder. He was appointed "at large" from the District of Columbia to the United States Naval Academy and graduated from there in 1902. For his two-year required Midshipman sea duty, he served on board {{USS|Indiana|BB-1|6}} and {{USS|Chauncey|DD-3|6}}, where he was commissioned an Ensign in May 1904. In December 1905, he returned to sea on board {{USS|Texas|1892|6}} then transferred to {{USS|Louisiana|BB-19|6}}. Remaining at sea, Wainwright received orders to {{USS|Connecticut|BB-18|6}}, where he served during that ship's participation in the voyage of the Great White Fleet around the world from 1907 to 1909.[3][4][5] Richard Wainwright married Alice Sorrel Blech (1882-1965) in 1910. At the time, Miss Blech was social secretary for First Lady of the United States Helen Taft, wife of then President Taft.[5][6] The couple had at least one child, Richard Wainwright III (1911-1936).[7] In 1911, his assignment supported the early development of naval aviation, and he was recognized as an aviation expert alongside Captain Washington Irving Chambers.[8] He detached from there in May 1911 to attend the summer session at the Naval War College.[9] After completing the summer course, Wainwright received orders to the battleship {{USS|Florida|BB-30}}. While leading a landing party from that ship in battle at Veracruz, Mexico, he earned the Medal of Honor for his outstanding conduct on April 21-22, 1914.[3] Medal of Honor citationFor distinguished conduct in battle, engagements of Vera Cruz, 21 and 22 April 1914. Lt. Wainwright was eminent and conspicuous in command of his battalion; was in the fighting of both days, and exhibited courage and skill in leading his men through action. In seizing the customhouse, he encountered for many hours the heaviest and most pernicious concealed fire of the entire day, but his courage and coolness under trying conditions were marked. In September 1914, Wainwright detached from the Florida with orders to the Naval Academy.[10] He received a promotion to Lieutenant Commander on April 28, 1915. He served at the Naval Academy until his retirement.[5] RetirementWainwright retired from the Navy, with a physical disability, on March 3, 1921.[3] From November 1925 to January 1929, he served as Superintendent of the Navy Department Library.[11] During World War II, he was recalled to active duty in February 1942 and promoted to Commander.[12] He died in Annapolis, Maryland March 28, 1944, and is buried in the United States Naval Academy Cemetery.[3] NamesakesThree ships have been named {{USS|Wainwright}} for his father Richard, his grandfather and two other relatives. See also{{Portal bar|Biography|United States Navy|World War I}}
References{{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/w/wainwright-i.html}} 1. ^{{cite news|title=Wainwright to Leave Navy|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83016758/1911-12-21/ed-1/seq-10/|accessdate=20 May 2015|work=The Princeton Union|date=21 December 1911|location=Princeton, Minnesota|page=10}} 2. ^{{cite news|title=Descendants of Signers of the Declaration of Independence|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1911-07-02/ed-1/seq-50/|accessdate=20 May 2015|work=Evening star.|date=2 July 1911|location=Washington, D.C.|page=6 (Part 4)}} 3. ^1 2 3 {{Cite DANFS|title=Wainwright|url=http://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/w/wainwright-i.html|accessdate=20 May 2015}} 4. ^{{cite book|title=Register of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps and Reserve Officers on Active Duty|date=1908|publisher=Government Printing Office|location=Washington, DC|page=199|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DsYcAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=20 May 2015}} 5. ^{{cite news|title=Miss Alice Blech Bride of Lieut. Wainwright|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045433/1910-04-27/ed-1/seq-5/|accessdate=20 May 2015|work=The Washington Herald|date=27 April 1910|location=Washington, D.C.|page=5}} 6. ^{{cite news|title=Social Secretaries, Profession Demands High Personal Qualities|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1922-07-02/ed-1/seq-36/|accessdate=20 May 2015|work=Evening Star|date=2 July 1922|location=Washington, D.C.|page=12 (Part 2)}} 7. ^{{cite journal|title=Births, Marriages and Deaths|journal=Army-Navy-Air Force Register and Defense Times|date=4 March 1911|volume=49|issue=1628|page=18|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pFE-AQAAMAAJ|accessdate=20 May 2015}} 8. ^{{cite news|title=Aviation in the Navy|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84022472/1911-03-21/ed-1/seq-8/|accessdate=20 May 2015|work=The Bridgeport Evening Farmer|date=21 March 1911|location=Bridgeport, Connecticut|page=8}} 9. ^{{cite journal|title=Navy Times|journal=Army-Navy-Air Force Register and Defense Times|date=27 May 1911|volume=49|issue=1640|page=23|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pFE-AQAAMAAJ|accessdate=20 May 2015}} 10. ^{{cite journal|title=Navy Times|journal=Army-Navy-Air Force Register and Defense Times|date=12 September 1914|volume=56|issue=1782|page=342|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pFE-AQAAMAAJ|accessdate=20 May 2015}} 11. ^{{cite web|title=Officers and Key Personnel Attached to the Office of Naval Records and Library 1882-1946|url=http://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/library-history/officers-and-key-personnel-attached-to-the-office-of-naval-records-and-library-1882-1946.html|publisher=Naval History and Heritage Command|accessdate=20 May 2015}} 12. ^1 2 {{cite web|title=Richard Wainright, Jr., Commander, USN (Retired), (1881-1944)|url=http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/us-people/w/wainwright-jr-richard.html|publisher=Naval History and Heritage Command|accessdate=20 May 2015}} External links
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