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Home Town Washington, D.C.
Last Address He died on December 28, 1925 and is buried in Section 2 of Arlington National Cemetery.
Date of Passing Dec 28, 1925
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Raymond Perry Rodgers
Born in Washington, D.C., December 20, 1849. His parents were Christopher Raymond Perry Rodgers and Julia Slidell Rodgers. He graduated from the Naval Academy in 1868 and married Gertrude Stuyvesant. Appointed Ensign, USN, 1869 and was promoted through the grades to rear admiral on July 4, 1908.
He served as Executive Officer of USS Iowa in the Spanish-American War and was advanced five numbers in grade for "imminent and conspicious conduct" in the battle which destroyed Cevera's squadron off Santiago, Cuba. He is also the brother of Thomas Slidell Rodgers. Both brothers, Raymond and Thomas Rodgers, held the position of Director of Naval Intelligence.
Rodgers also involved ONI in cryptography, and the office took on the task of finding useful inventions for the Navy, receiving a flood of letters detailing all manner of odd devices. Rodgers' command was among the best in ONI history, as young, vigorous officers flocked to the office, setting the tone for ONI operations throughout the rest of the century, as naval attaches in Europe searched out advances in naval technology, while in Latin America ONI kept a close watch over European colonial interests. Despite this new drive, a transfer of ONI from the Bureau of Navigation to the Office of the Secretary of the Navy in 1890 increased the demand on ONI for more information, and a weakness in intelligence-gathering would be revealed by the Spanish-American War.
He died on December 28, 1925 and is buried in Section 2 of Arlington National Cemetery.
Chain of Command Head of the Office of Naval Intelligence (Chief Intelligence Officer) April 1906-May 1909
Other Memories Rodgers, who held the rank of captain by April 1906, was reappointed Chief Intelligence Officer, succeeding Cmdr. Seaton Schroeder. He was in turn succeeded by Capt. Charles E. Vreeland in May 1909. He retired shortly thereafter.
