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Home Town West Quincy, MA
Last Address Lake Wales, FL
Date of Passing Mar 17, 1983
Location of Interment Arlington National Cemetery (VLM) - Arlington, Virginia
Wall/Plot Coordinates 3 1857
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Bartholomew William Hogan (born on January 29, 1901 in West Quincy, Massachusetts) was a psychiatrist, professor and Naval officer. Hogan graduated from Boston College in 1923 and received his medical degree from the Tufts College, School of Medicine, in 1925. He was appointed a lieutenant, junior grade, the same year.
Dr. Hogan trained at Washington's St. Elizabeth's Hospital and in the thirties he taught at Georgetown University, School of Medicine. In 1940 he was appointed chief of psychiatry at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Annapolis, Maryland. During World War II, he served as a Senior Medical Officer on several ships in the Atlantic and Pacific. He was appointed to the rank of Rear Admiral in 1952 and became Surgeon General of the United States Navy in 1955.
After he retired from the U.S. Navy in 1961, he served as Deputy Medical Director of the American Psychiatric Association until 1971.
Rear Admiral Hogan died on March 17, 1983 and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. He was a member of the Army & Navy Club, the Chevy Chase Club and the New York Yacht Club. He was also chairman of the John Carroll Society.
Rear Admiral B.W. Hogan, Surgeon General of the Navy was presented with the MEDAILLE DE VERMEIL, the Medal of Honor of the French Navy Medical Service, at a special ceremony held in the office of the Surgeon General at the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery on January 10, 1957. The Medal was presented to Admiral Hogan by Rear Admiral Louis Mornu, Naval Attache for the French Embassy, Washington, D.C.
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Navy Distinguished Service Medal
Awarded for Actions During Cold War
Service: Navy
General Orders: All Hands (May 1961)
Citation: The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Distinguished Service Medal to Rear Admiral (MC) Bartholomew W. Hogan, United States Navy, for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished service in a position of great responsibility to the Government of the United States as Chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, and Surgeon General of the Navy, from February 1955 to February 1961. Rear Admiral Hogan established new objectives in all branches of Navy medical practice, patient care and internship and residency training. He initiated significant changes which doubled the size and scope of the Navy's Internship and Residency Training Programs and raised standards of training. The increased residency training opportunities, as well as improvements in morale, have resulted in a reduction of approximately 50 per cent in the annual turnover of Navy doctors. Under his skillful direction, the scope of medical research has been broadened in all area.
Navy and Marine Corps Medal
Awarded for Actions During World War II
Service: Navy
Rank: Commander
General Orders: Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin No. 315 (June 1943)
Citation: The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy and Marine Corps Medal to Commander (MC) Bartholomew W. Hogan, United States Navy, for heroism at the risk of life not involving conflict with an armed enemy as Senior Medical Officer of the U.S.S. WASP (CV-7) when that vessel was torpedoed by Japanese forces on 15 September 1942. Commander Hogan immediately took active charge of caring for the many painfully injured aboard a United States destroyer which had rescued him from the flaming oil-covered sea and continued his supervision of medical attention to the more seriously wounded until the early hours of the following morning, all in spite of serious burns on both hands and several fractured ribs.
RAdm Bartholomew William "Bart" Hogan Birth: Jan. 29, 190, Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts Death: Mar. 17, 1983
US Navy Admiral. A psychiatrist, he is remembered for his tenure as Surgeon General of the Navy. Raised in the Boston suburbs, he received his undergraduate degree from Boston College, earned his M.D. from Tufts University in 1925, then fulfilled a lifelong ambition by joining the Navy. Dr. Hogan trained at Washington's St. Elizabeth's Hospital and Georgetown University, was appointed chief of psychiatry at Naval Hospital Annapolis in 1940, and served in the North Atlantic during World War II. As senior medical officer of the carrier USS "Wasp" (CV-7), he was decorated for combat bravery, receiving the Silver Star, Navy and Marine Corps Medal, and Purple Heart for personally saving a number of men when the ship was torpedoed and sunk on September 15, 1942. Dr. Hogan went on to serve as Executive Officer of the Naval Hospitals at Philadelphia and Bethesda, was Commanding officer of the facility at Mare Island, California, and was Commanding Officer of Bethesda when former Defense Secretary James Forrestal committed suicide by jumping on May 22, 1949. Though he was to some extent blamed by the press and public because a depressed individual had been housed in high-rank quarters on the 16th floor, it was common knowledge within the Navy medical community that Forrestal had been placed there on direct orders of Harry Truman against the express recommendations of both Dr. Hogan and the attending psychiatrist. Dr. Hogan's willingness to take censure in place of his Commander-in-Chief earned him respect and in 1952 he was promoted to Rear Admiral; he was serving as Fleet Medical Officer Pacific when he was elevated to Vice Admiral and named Surgeon General of the Navy in 1955. Following his 1961 retirement, he held several posts with the American Psychiatric Association including Deputy Medical Director until 1971. The doctor retired to Central Florida where he died of a stroke.
Burial: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, USA. Plot: Section 3 1857.
