Edward Ellsberg

Rear Admiral Edward Ellsberg, OBE was an officer in the United States Navy and a popular author. He was widely known as Commander Ellsberg.

Ellsberg was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and grew up in Colorado. He was one of the very few Jews who were accepted into the United States Naval Academy, which graduated him with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1914. He earned his Master of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1920. He received an honorary Eng.D. from University of Colorado at Boulder in 1929.

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