Kauffman (FFG 59) - Naval Cruise Book

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THE KA UFFMANS . . , VADM. -lAMKS L. KAVFFMAN (ISS7-1963) LJ urn ill Ohidiin April IS. I8H7. Junies Lnurfiico KnulYiDnii ;it If ruled I ' eiinsyl :inin . Iilil:iryC(illef;e. I he Army and Xavy Preparatory School mJ und graduated in 1908 frotn the U.S. Naval .Academy. He held a variety of wide-ranging command billets, ashore and afloat, during World War I. Serving in command of the gunboat RANIER, , s an executive officer of the destroyer C.ALDWKLL, he became Lieutenant Commander on January I. 1918. He transferred from the CALD- WELL to command the Hath-Huilt I ' S.S JKNKIX.S (I)D-l ' Ji. .Admiral Kauffman. during his career, spent wore time in command and more lime at sea than any other officer of his lime. .At the end of the war. Kauffman returned to the L ' .S. to commission and command a new ship, the I ' SS B.ARNEY (DD 149). In November of 1920. he became the executive officer of the new Radio Division of the Bureau of Engineering. IN May of 192:1. he was appointed Naval Aide and Flag Secretary to Admiral S.S. Robinson. Commander in Chief. U.S. Fleet. In June of 1925. Kauffman was selected to the rank of Commander. His next tour of duty iias as a nieml)er of the I ' .S. Naval Mission to Brazil. .Appointed Captain in 19:i6. Kauffman served as commanding officer of the I ' S. ' .ME.MPHIS and later at the shipyard at Mare Island. In 1911. Rear .Admiral Kauffman was sent by President Roosevelt to establish and command a Naval Operating Base in Iceland. In 1942, as the principal Navy anti-submarine expert, he commanded the (hilfSea Frontier which included the Gulf of Mexico north to the shores of the Carolinas. Under his dynamic leadership, the L ' -boat menace in that area was checked. Kauffman later became the senior member of the .Allied .Anti-submarine Survey Bt ard. evaluating ASW techniques for Roosevelt and Prime .Minister Churchill. Moving on to the Pacific in 1943, he assumed command of all the Pacific Fleet ' s crui.fcrs, destroyers and frigates: 401 ships with 150.000 men. In October 1944. he reported to General Douglas McArthur as Commander Philippine Sea Frontier. In May of 1946. Vice Admiral Kauffman returned home and was assigned to duty as the Commandant of the Fourth Naval District where he remained until he retired in 1949. His second career began the day after termination of his first. .As the lirst President of Jefferson Medical College and Jefferson Medical Center, a position he retained for 10 years, he presided over the greatest period of growth in Jell ' er. on ' s history. He was married to the former Elizabeth Kelsey Draper for nearly 54 years. Their daughter. Elizabeth Louise, married Prescott S. Bush. Jr. Their son. Rear Admiral Draper Laurence Kauffman married the former Margaret C. Tuckerman.