About William Faxon
Lived 1822 – 1883 (aged 60–61). William Faxon was a journalist.
William Faxon (April 17, 1822 – September 19, 1883) was a journalist who served as chief clerk of the United States Navy from 1861 to 1866 and as United States Assistant Secretary of the Navy from 1866 until 1869.
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In 1857, Faxon formed a partnership with Joseph Roswell Hawley, Faxon & Hawley, which purchased the Hartford Evening Press, a Republican newspaper founded by Gideon Welles in 1856. They soon invited Charles Dudley Warner and Stephen A. Hubbard to join their newspaper. As a compromise, the post of Assistant Secretary of the Navy was created for Fox, As chief clerk of the Navy during the American Civil War, Faxon was in charge of the records, correspondence, and personnel of the Office of the Secretary of the Navy and oversaw the finances of the Department of the Navy.
Faxon died in 1883.
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United States Assistant Secretary to the Navy (1822–1883)
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