Harry M. P. Huse

Harry McLaren Pinckney Huse was a United States Navy ViceAdmiral and a recipient of Americas highest military decorationthe Medal of Honorfor his actions during the U.S. intervention at Veracruz, Mexico.

Harry Huse was born at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York, where his Army officer father, Caleb Huse was then stationed. He was appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy in September 1874 and graduated in June 1878. He had extensive service at sea over the next decade, plus duty ashore, notably at the Naval Academy, where he would have several staff tours in the course of his career. During the 1898 SpanishAmerican War Lieutenant Huse was Executive Officer of the gunboat USS160Gloucester160, taking part in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba and leading a party ashore that first raised the U.S. flag over Puerto Rico. In the early 1900s Lieutenant Commander Huse was stationed in the Philippines, where he commanded the gunboat USS160Villalobos160. This was followed by nearly five years at the Naval Academy as, among other things, instructor of mathematics.

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