Born in Hackensack: Henry Kent Hewitt (signed letter)

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Henry Kent Hewitt Typed Letter Signed 1964

One Page, about 8" by 11", Orwell, Vermont, July 24, 1964. About his successful naval career.
Note file holes and folds.

Henry Kent Hewitt (1887-1972) was born in Hackensack, New Jersey on February 11, 1887 and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1906. Hewitt served on USS Missouri in the Great White Fleet's circumnavigation of the globe from 1907-1909. He later taught mathematics at the Naval Academy before commanding the yacht Eagle. During World War I, Hewitt commanded the destroyer USS Cummings and subsequently the USS Indianapolis.

Beginning in 1941, he commanded Atlantic Fleet Task Groups in neutrality patrols and convoys until becoming Commander, Amphibious Force, Atlantic Fleet, in April 1942. This force, also called Task Force 34, became the U.S. component of the Operation Torch landings in November 1942. Hewitt was then assigned as Commander, U.S. Naval Forces, Northwest Africa Waters or COMNAVNAW. (Sean Maloney, To Secure Command of the Sea, thesis, 1991, p.25)

Hewitt remained in this post until 1945, when he chaired a Pearl Harbor investigation.

Following World War II, he commanded U.S. Naval Forces Europe, advised the Naval War College, and served as a Navy representative to the United Nations. Hewitt retired from active duty in 1949.

USS Hewitt was named in his honor.


This autograph is guaranteed with a 100% money-back guarantee of authenticity. It is from the personal collection of one of the owners of the Autograph Alcove, a former manuscript dealership in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This dealership is praised in early editions of the Sander's Price Guide to Autographs.