The Commandant of Midshipmen is the second-in-command at the United States Naval Academy

United States Naval Academy

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. According to the Naval Academy, the Commandant of Midshipmen is "responsible for the professional development and day-to-day activities of all 4,000 Midshipmen in the Brigade" and equates to a dean of students

Dean (education)

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 at a civilian university

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." The Commandant

Commandant

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 reports to the Superintendent. Modern Commandants typically hold the Navy rank

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 of Captain. The current commandant is Captain Robert E. Clark II.

List of Commandants of Midshipmen

1. Lieutenant
   Lieutenant
   A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...
   
    James Harman Ward 1845-1847
2. Lieutenant
   Lieutenant
   A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...
   
    Sydney Smith Lee
   Sydney Smith Lee
   Sydney Smith Lee was an American naval officer and older brother to Robert E. Lee. He was the third child of Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee and Anne Hill Carter.-Life:...
   
    1848-1851
3. Lieutenant
   Lieutenant
   A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...
   
    Thomas Tingey Craven 1851-1855
4. Lieutenant
   Lieutenant
   A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...
   
    Joseph Foster Green 1855-1858
5. Lieutenant
   Lieutenant
   A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...
   
    Thomas Tingey Craven 1858-1860
6. Lieutenant
   Lieutenant
   A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...
   
    Christopher Raymond Perry Rodgers
   Christopher Raymond Perry Rodgers
   Christopher Raymond Perry Rodgers was an officer in the United States Navy. He served in the Mexican-American War, the American Civil War, as Superintendent of the Naval Academy, and Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Squadron.-Early career:Rodgers was born in Brooklyn, New York, into a naval family...
   
    1860-1861
7. Lieutenant
   Lieutenant
   A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...
   
    George Washington Rodgers
   George Washington Rodgers
   George Washington Rodgers was a United States Navy officer.Rodgers was born in Brooklyn, the son of George Washington Rodgers and Anna Maria Perry...
   
    1861-1862
8. Lieutenant
   Lieutenant
   A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...
   
    Edward Simpson 1862–186
9. Commander
   Commander (United States)
   In the United States, commander is a military rank that is also sometimes used as a military title, depending on the branch of service. It is also used as a rank or title in some organizations outside of the military, particularly in police and law enforcement.-Naval rank:In the United States...
   
    Thomas G. Corbin
   Thomas G. Corbin
   Thomas G. Corbin was an United States Navy officer.Corbin was born August 13, 1820 in Virginia. He was appointed from Alabama on May 15, 1838, and attached to the frigate Brandywine with the Mediterranean Squadron from 1838 to 1842. Corbin was promoted to passed midshipman on May 20, 1844, and...
   
    1863-1863
10. Commander
    Commander (United States)
    In the United States, commander is a military rank that is also sometimes used as a military title, depending on the branch of service. It is also used as a rank or title in some organizations outside of the military, particularly in police and law enforcement.-Naval rank:In the United States...
    
     Donald McNeill Fairfax 1863-1865
11. Lieutenant Commander
    Lieutenant commander (United States)
    Lieutenant commander is a mid-ranking officer rank in the United States Navy, the United States Coast Guard, the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Corps, with the pay grade of O-4 and NATO rank code OF-3...
    
     Stephen B. Luce 1865-1868
12. Captain Napoleon Bonaparte Harrison 1868-1870
13. Captain Samuel P. Carter
    Samuel P. Carter
    Samuel Perry "Powhatan" Carter was a United States naval officer who served in the Union Army as a brevet major general during the American Civil War and became a rear admiral in the postbellum United States Navy. He was the first and thusfar only United States officer to have been commissioned...
    
     1870-1873
14. Commander
    Commander (United States)
    In the United States, commander is a military rank that is also sometimes used as a military title, depending on the branch of service. It is also used as a rank or title in some organizations outside of the military, particularly in police and law enforcement.-Naval rank:In the United States...
    
     Kidder Randolph Breese 1873-1875
15. Commander
    Commander (United States)
    In the United States, commander is a military rank that is also sometimes used as a military title, depending on the branch of service. It is also used as a rank or title in some organizations outside of the military, particularly in police and law enforcement.-Naval rank:In the United States...
    
     Edward Terry
    Edward Terry
    Edward A. Terry was an officer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. Following the war, he served several tours of duty at the United States Naval Academy, including a tour in the 1870s as Commandant of Cadets.-Early life and career:Born at Hartford, Connecticut, Terry was...
    
     1875-1878
16. Commander
    Commander (United States)
    In the United States, commander is a military rank that is also sometimes used as a military title, depending on the branch of service. It is also used as a rank or title in some organizations outside of the military, particularly in police and law enforcement.-Naval rank:In the United States...
    
     Frederick Vallette McNair, Sr.
    Frederick V. McNair, Sr.
    Frederick Valette McNair was a rear admiral in the United States Navy. McNair served as Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy from 1898 to 1900.-Biography:...
    
     1878-1883
17. Commander
    Commander (United States)
    In the United States, commander is a military rank that is also sometimes used as a military title, depending on the branch of service. It is also used as a rank or title in some organizations outside of the military, particularly in police and law enforcement.-Naval rank:In the United States...
    
     Norman Von Heidreich Farquhar 1883-1886
18. Commander
    Commander (United States)
    In the United States, commander is a military rank that is also sometimes used as a military title, depending on the branch of service. It is also used as a rank or title in some organizations outside of the military, particularly in police and law enforcement.-Naval rank:In the United States...
    
     Charles Lathrop Huntington 1886-1887
19. Commander
    Commander (United States)
    In the United States, commander is a military rank that is also sometimes used as a military title, depending on the branch of service. It is also used as a rank or title in some organizations outside of the military, particularly in police and law enforcement.-Naval rank:In the United States...
    
     Purnell Frederick Harrington 1887-1889
20. Commander
    Commander (United States)
    In the United States, commander is a military rank that is also sometimes used as a military title, depending on the branch of service. It is also used as a rank or title in some organizations outside of the military, particularly in police and law enforcement.-Naval rank:In the United States...
    
     Henry Glass 1889-1891
21. Commander
    Commander (United States)
    In the United States, commander is a military rank that is also sometimes used as a military title, depending on the branch of service. It is also used as a rank or title in some organizations outside of the military, particularly in police and law enforcement.-Naval rank:In the United States...
    
     Colby Mitchell Chester
    Colby Mitchell Chester
    Colby Mitchell Chester was a United States Navy admiral. He is the only naval officer to have actively served in the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and World War I.-Biography:...
    
     1891-1895
22. Commander
    Commander (United States)
    In the United States, commander is a military rank that is also sometimes used as a military title, depending on the branch of service. It is also used as a rank or title in some organizations outside of the military, particularly in police and law enforcement.-Naval rank:In the United States...
    
     Willard Herbert Brownson 1895 – 1896
23. Commander
    Commander (United States)
    In the United States, commander is a military rank that is also sometimes used as a military title, depending on the branch of service. It is also used as a rank or title in some organizations outside of the military, particularly in police and law enforcement.-Naval rank:In the United States...
    
     Edwin White
    Edwin White
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     1896-1898
24. Commander
    Commander (United States)
    In the United States, commander is a military rank that is also sometimes used as a military title, depending on the branch of service. It is also used as a rank or title in some organizations outside of the military, particularly in police and law enforcement.-Naval rank:In the United States...
    
     Charles Thomas Hutchins 1898-1900
25. Commander Charles Ellwood Colahan 1900 - 1903
26. Commander Charles Johnston Badger 1903 - 1905
27. Captain George Patridge Colvocoresses 1905 - 1907
28. Commander William S. Benson
    William S. Benson
    William Shepherd Benson was an Admiral in the United States Navy and the first Chief of Naval Operations , holding the post throughout World War I.-Biography:...
    
     1907 - 1908
29. Commander Charles Augustus Gove 1908 - 1909
30. Commander George Ramsey Clark 1909 - 1910
31. Commander Robert Edward Coontz 1910 - 1911
32. Commander George Wood Logan 1911 - 1914
33. Captain Guy Hamilton Burrage 1914 - 1915
34. Captain Lloyd Horwitz Chandler Summer 1915
35. Captain Louis McCoy Nulton
    Louis McCoy Nulton
    Louis McCoy Nulton was a four-star admiral in the United States Navy who was superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy from 1925 to 1928 and commander of the Battle Fleet from 1929 to 1930.-Early career:...
    
     1915 - 1918
36. Captain William H. Standley 1918 - 1919
37. Captain Wat Tyler Cluverius, Jr.
    Wat Tyler Cluverius, Jr.
    Wat Tyler Cluverius, Jr. was an admiral in the United States Navy and president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute...
    
     1919 - 1921
38. Captain Thomas Richardson Kurtz 1921 - 1924
39. Captain Harold Earle Cook 1924 - 1925
40. Captain Sinclair Gannon 1925 - 1928
41. Captain Charles Philip Snyder
    Charles P. Snyder (admiral)
    Charles Philip Snyder was a four-star admiral in the United States Navy who served as the U.S. Navy's first Naval Inspector General during World War II.-Early career:...
    
     1928 - 1931
42. Captain Henry David Cooke, Jr. 1931 - 1932
43. Captain Ralston Smith Holmes 1932-1935
44. Captain Forde Anderson Todd 1935 - 1937
45. Rear Admiral Milo Frederick Draemel 1937 - 1940
46. Captain Francis Alfred L. Vossler 1940 - 1941
47. Captain Mahlon Street Tisdale 1941 - 1942
48. Captain Harvey Edward Overesch
    Harvey Overesch
    Harvey Edward Overesch was an American football player and vice admiral in the U.S. Navy.A native of Lafayette, Indiana, Overesch attended Purdue University for two years before enrolling as a midshipman at the United States Naval Academy. He played at the end positions for the Navy Midshipmen...
    
     1942 - 1943
49. Captain Stuart Shadrick Murray 1943 - 1945
50. Rear Admiral Stuart Howe Ingersoll 1945 - 1947
51. Captain Frank Trenwith Ward 1947 - 1949
52. Captain Carleton R. Adams 1949
53. Captain Robert B. Pirie
    Robert B. Pirie
    Robert B. Pirie was a vice admiral in the United States Navy. He was Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for air when he retired in 1962....
    
     1949-1952
54. Rear Admiral Charles Allen Buchanan - 1952-1954
55. Captain Robert T.S. Keith 1954-1956
56. Captain Allen M. Shinn 1956-1958
57. Captain Frederick L. Ashworth 1958
58. Captain William F. Bringle
    William F. Bringle
    Admiral William Floyd Bringle, USN, was the first commanding officer of USS Kitty Hawk . During the Vietnam War, he was Commander, U.S. Seventh Fleet in 1967-70 as a Vice Admiral, and later, as a four star admiral, Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe in 1971-73.-Early life and career:Admiral...
    
     1958-1960
59. Captain James H. Mini 1960-1961
60. Captain Charles S. Minter, Jr. 1961-1964
61. Captain Sheldon H. Kinney
    Sheldon H. Kinney
    Sheldon Hoard Kinney was a U.S. Navy rear admiral who was prominent for action in World War II, the Korean War, and later maritime education as Commandant of Cadets at the U.S. Naval Academy and President of SUNY Maritime College....
    
     1964-1967
62. Captain Lawrence T. Heyworth Jr. 1967-1969
63. Captain Robert P. Coogan 1969-1971
64. Captain Max K. Morris  1971-1973
65. Captain Donald K. Forbes 1973-1976
66. Captain James A. Winnefeld 1976-1978
67. Captain Jack N. Darby 1978-1979
68. Rear Admiral William F. "Scot" McCauley 1979-1981
69. Captain Leon A. Edney
    Leon A. Edney
    Leon Albert "Bud" Edney is a retired United States Navy officer. A native of Dedham, Massachusetts, he retired from the Navy as an admiral and served as Vice Chief of Naval Operations for the United States Navy.-Naval career:...
    
     1981-1984
70. Captain Leslie N. Palmer 1984
71. Captain Stephan K. Chadwick 1985-1986
72. Captain Howard W. Habermeyer Jr. 1987-1990
73. Captain Joseph W. Prueher 1989-1990
74. Captain Michael D. Haskins 1990-1992
75. Captain John Bramwell Padgett, III 1992-1994
76. Captain William T. R. "Randy" Bogle 1994-1997
77. Captain Gary Roughead
    Gary Roughead
    Gary Roughead is a retired United States Navy four-star admiral who last served as the 29th Chief of Naval Operations from September 29, 2007 to September 22, 2011. He previously served as Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command, from May 17, 2007, to September 29, 2007. Prior to that he served as...
    
     1997-December 1999
78. Captain Samuel J. Locklear
    Samuel J. Locklear
    Admiral Samuel J. Locklear III, USN is current Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe which he concurrently serves as Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Africa and NATO's Commander, Allied Joint Force Command Naples. He previously served as Director, Navy Staff from July 2009 to October 2010...
    
     1999-December 2001
79. Colonel
    Colonel (United States)
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     John R. Allen
    John R. Allen
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     (first Marine Corps
    United States Marine Corps
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     officer to serve as commandant; selected brigadier general
    Brigadier general (United States)
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    , January 2003) January 2002 – September 2003
80. Captain Charles J. "Joe" Leidig, Jr.
    Charles J. Leidig
    Vice Admiral Charles Joe Leidig, USN is the second and current Deputy to the Commander for Military Operations, U.S. Africa Command. He assumed his current assignment in August 2010.-Education:...
    
     September 2003-June 2005
81. Captain Bruce E. Grooms
    Bruce E. Grooms
    Bruce Estes Grooms, is a rear admiral in the United States Navy. He previously served as Commander of Submarine Group TWO and currently serves as Vice Director of the Joint Staff...
    
     June 2005-December 2006
82. Captain Margaret D. Klein
    Margaret D. Klein
    Margaret DeLuca Klein is a United States Navy officer. She currently holds the rank of rear admiral is commander Expeditionary Strike Group Five....
    
     December 2006-June 2008 (first woman to serve as commandant)
83. Captain Matthew L. Klunder
    Matthew L. Klunder
    Rear Admiral Matthew L. Klunder is the Chief of Naval Research at the Office of Naval Research in Arlington, Virginia. In July 2010, Klunder reported as director of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Capabilities Division, OPNAV N2/N6F2 following his assignment as the 83rd Commandant of...
    
     June 2008-April 2010
84. Captain Robert E. Clark II April 2010-Present