MacGillivray Milne

MacGillivray Milne

MacGillivray Milne (born August 19, 1882 in Gauley Bridge , Fayette County , West Virginia , †  January 26, 1959 in Oakland , California ) was an American naval officer. Between 1936 and 1938 he was the military governor of American Samoa .

Career

MacGillivray Milne graduated from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis ( Maryland ). In the following years he served as an officer in the United States Navy . He took part in the Philippine-American War as well as in the First and Second World Wars . In the meantime he was also active in the administration of the Naval Academy in Annapolis. There he headed the department for modern languages. In 1932 he was a member of an American military commission that visited Italy at the invitation of the dictator Benito Mussolini . In 1934 he was the captain of the battleship USS Arizona , which was later to be sunk during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor . That same year he rammed a fishing boat, killing two people. Milne came before a naval court and was found guilty of causing the collision. He was reset in the order of promotion. Although he retained his rank as captain, he lost command of the Arizona .

Milne was Governor of American Samoa from January 20, 1936 to June 3, 1938. There he replaced Otto Dowling and the acting interim governor Thomas Benjamin Fitzpatrick . During this time he tried to modernize his territory. However, no money came from the federal government for this. Milne also served in the Navy during World War II. He died on 26 January 1959 in a naval hospital in Oakland and was in Tenafly ( New Jersey buried).

Web links

• MacGillivray Milne in the database of Find a Grave (English)