Clark Daniel Stearns

Clark Daniel Stearns ( born January 15, 1870 Miami -Dade County, Florida, † May 25, 1944 in Miami, Florida) was an American naval officer. At the end of his military service, he had attained the rank of Captain. In the years 1913 and 1914, he was military governor of American Samoa.

Career

In 1891, Clark Stearns graduated from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis (Maryland). He then embarked on a career as an officer in the United States Navy. Between 14 July 1913 and 2 October 1914, he was military governor of American Samoa. During this time he taught three committees to improve the political and social situation. It was a management committee, which consisted of the individual Bezirksgouverneueren, a hospital committee with three members from each district and a monitoring committee reviewed the work of the administration. Stearns also established new ministries in its outer region, These included the departments of law, finance, home affairs, agriculture and health.

In 1918 he commanded the military freighter USS Roanoke. There he made with the approval of his superiors an attempt to achieve more participation for the crew members aboard the ship. He founded two missions, consisting of officers or crew degrees, which dealt similar to a council with the processes on board the ship. This also included the review of disciplinary action. The goal was the reduction of tensions within the team. Stearns was awarded the Navy Distinguished Service Medal for his service aboard the USS Roanoke.

Then he proposed a reform of the Navy criminal law. In 1921 he assumed command of the battleship USS Michigan. There he introduced the same system as on the Roanoke. This time came this measure but brusque rejection by the Navy Department. This saw is now undermining their authority and spoke of a " Soviet spirit" feeding thus in the Navy. After just 107 days he was relieved of his command on the Michigan and moved to the Navy Yard Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington.

After the Kanto earthquake in Japan in 1923, Clark Stearns led the U.S. aid. For this he received from the Japanese Red Cross for a medal, which he sent back after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 back to the Japanese. He died on 25 May 1944, aboard a U- boat off Miami of a heart attack and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

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