The Navy League
of the

United States

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The Pioneer Organization for
National Defense in the United States

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FounpDED: November 20, 1902.

Pursuant to the call issued by Jarvis B.
Edson, Chairman of the Committee ap-
pointed by the Naval Order of the United
States for the formation of a “society to
insure the United States against the pos-
sibility of being invaded”, the Navy League
of the United States was organized at the
New York Yacht Club.

Present at this meeting were: Jarvis
B. Edson, a naval veteran of the Civil
War representing the Naval Order of the
United States; Washington Irving, an
officer of the New York State Naval Militia,
representing the Association of the Naval
Militia of the United States; C. W.
Rushenberger, representing the Naval
Academy Alumni of Philadelphia; and
J. D. J. Kelley, an editorial writer of
the New York Herald, representing the
Naval Academy Alumni of New York.