RADM Luce entered the Navy in October 1841 as a Midshipman. He embodied the best of both worlds. His naval career combined the practical experience of sea command with broad academic study and he strongly advocated higher education for the Navy's officers. He became the first President of the newly-established Naval War College at Newport, Rhode Island during 1884-1886. He organized the Naval War College as “a place of original research on all questions relating to war, and to statesmanship connected to war, or the prevention of war. Though retired in March 1889, Rear Admiral Luce remained active in Naval affairs as President of the U.S. Naval Institute until 1898 and, during the first decade of the 1900s, as President of the Naval Academy's Board of Visitors and on special duty at the War College.
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