US Navy Huckster Fat Leonard Gets A TV Show
Project Brazen today announced they have entered a deal with Peter Chiarelli (Crazy Rich Asians) to write a television adaptation chronicling the decades-long Fat Leonard U.S. Navy scandal, one of...
Painting of Commodore Uriah Phillips Levy (1792-1862)
Oil on canvas
Artist unknown
USNA Museum Collection
1929.8
Commodore Levy was one of the principal officers resonsible for ending the practice of flogging enlisted sailors. The Navy’s first Jewish commodore, Levy promoted justice and human rights throughout his career.
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