Vice Admiral Ferdinand Louis Reichmuth was an officer of the United States Navy who served in World War I and World War II.
Reichmuth was born at Beloit, Kansas, the son of Ferdinand G. C. Reichmuth and Johana Christiane Clotilde Graff, a German immigrant from Colleda, Thringen. He attended Ripon College, Ripon, Wisconsin, before his appointment to the United States Naval Academy from the state of Wisconsin in 1902. While a midshipman he was a member of the rowing crew. He graduated in February 1906.
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