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Rear Admiral Charles H. Stockton the Naval War College and the

Intel national Law Studies - Volume 71 The Law of Armed Conflict: Into the Next MillenniumMichael N. Schmitt & Leslie c. Green (Editors)Rear Admiral C

Rear Admiral Charles H. Stockton the Naval War College and theCharles H. Stockton, the Naval War College, and the Law of Naval WarfareJohn KattendorfSINCE ITS FOUNDING IN 1884, the U.S. Naval War College has play

ed a role in the study and formulation of the law of armed conflict. Many distinguished scholars and lawyers have taught, researched, and written stud Rear Admiral Charles H. Stockton the Naval War College and the

ies in this field at the College. The roll call of its professors of international law includes such distinguished scholars as John Bassett Moore, Geo

Rear Admiral Charles H. Stockton the Naval War College and the

rge Grafton Wilson, Manley o. Hudson, Hans Kelsen, Thomas Mallison, and Howard Levie.Many of the most well-known names are those of scholars who held

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Rear Admiral Charles H. Stockton the Naval War College and theversities. This policy changed only in July 1951, when the Secretary of the Navy created the College's first two full-time civilian academic appointme

nts: a professor of history and a professor of international law. For many years both were normally held by visiting scholars for a one or two-year pe Rear Admiral Charles H. Stockton the Naval War College and the

riod. On 6 October 1967 the College named the law position the Charles H. Stockton Chair of International Law.1 In attaching the name of Stockton to o

Rear Admiral Charles H. Stockton the Naval War College and the

ne of its oldest and most prestigious academic chairs, the Naval War College remembered a naval officer who was a key figure in its own institutional

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Rear Admiral Charles H. Stockton the Naval War College and the, and Stockton Hall, the home of the Law School at The George Washington University inĩhe opoúons shared m this paper are those of the author and do n

ot necessarily reflect the tfews and opinions of the U.S. Naval Wax Cotleje. the Dept- cc the Naw. or Dept, of Defense.Stockton, the War College and t Rear Admiral Charles H. Stockton the Naval War College and the

he LawWashington, D.C., are the principal tokens of his memory and his achievements.Looking behind those names, one finds that the man, Charles Stockt

Rear Admiral Charles H. Stockton the Naval War College and the

on, had an extremely successful forty-six-ycar career as a naval officer, ashore and afloat. In some respects he was a person of remarkable contrasts.

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Rear Admiral Charles H. Stockton the Naval War College and thee became fully aware of the need for his fellow officers to understand the practical applications of law in theừ daily responsibilities. A quiet and s

tudious person, he nevertheless loved active duty at sea. Deeply interested in naval history and strategy, as well as an advocate of preparedness and Rear Admiral Charles H. Stockton the Naval War College and the

a strong navy, he was devoted to developing an international consensus and public awareness of legal restraints on warfare. Among all his many activit

Rear Admiral Charles H. Stockton the Naval War College and the

ies, Stockton’s contributions to the development of the law of naval warfare stand as his most important achievement. They are among the foundations u

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Rear Admiral Charles H. Stockton the Naval War College and theSetting out to be a naval officer, he eventually found that his family background, early education, and his experiences at sea as a naval officer had

laid a firm foundation for his interest in the subject as well as the basis of his outlook as to its practical application. In addition, his repeated Rear Admiral Charles H. Stockton the Naval War College and the

assignments to the Naval War College provided him with his first opportunities to study international law in depth and to make an original contributio

Rear Admiral Charles H. Stockton the Naval War College and the

n to it. Exemplifying the broader development of international law within the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,

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Rear Admiral Charles H. Stockton the Naval War College and theiefs, as well as from his perceptions as a naval officer during the rise of the United States as a world power.Charles Herbert Stockton was born in Ph

iladelphia, Pennsylvania, on October 13, 1845, the second child and eldest son of thirteen children. His parents were William Rodgers Stockton, of an Rear Admiral Charles H. Stockton the Naval War College and the

old New Jersey family, and Emma Trout Gross, the daughter of Gottlieb Gross, who had immigrated from WOrttembcrg in about 1810. Bearing tire name of C

Rear Admiral Charles H. Stockton the Naval War College and the

harles' grandfather of Burlington County, New Jersey, that side of the family was well known for literary accomplishments. Among them were the writer

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Rear Admiral Charles H. Stockton the Naval War College and thelesiastical orator and the chaplain of the House of Representatives, whose prayer accompanied Lincoln's Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the ba

ttlefield cemetery in 1863.When Charles Stockton was bom, his father was operating a real estate business in a triangular-shaped building at the comer Rear Admiral Charles H. Stockton the Naval War College and the

of Ridge Avenue, 11th Avenue, and Buttonwood Street in Philadelphia. The family occupied the upper floors of the building, while the father operated

Rear Admiral Charles H. Stockton the Naval War College and the

his business on the ground floor. Following a successful business career, during which he was prominent in city affairs, Stockton’s father began to st

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Rear Admiral Charles H. Stockton the Naval War College and the858, when Stockton's father was appointed rector of St. James’s Church there as well as of St. Peter's Church in nearby Phoenixville in Montgomery Cou

nty, tl>e site of an iron works. In those years, the young Stockton grew up as “a gentleman’s son;* his family was well off, and he naturally associat Rear Admiral Charles H. Stockton the Naval War College and the

ed with boys from other cultivated families. For a time young Stockton attended the Germantown Academy, where his classmates were children of well-to-

Rear Admiral Charles H. Stockton the Naval War College and the

do families. There, he joined them in playing cricket and “town-ball,” the forerunner of baseball.On the Evansburg parish’s two-hundred-acre glebe far

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Rear Admiral Charles H. Stockton the Naval War College and thet)', with its Pennsylvania Dutch population and their idiomatic use of English mixed with German expressions. In addition to the moral influences of h

is family and from the various religious communities of that region, he was deeply impressed with the idea of community, of joining a variety of diffe Rear Admiral Charles H. Stockton the Naval War College and the

rent types of people. Interested in politics from an early age, the fifteen year old Charles joined in the activities of the Wide Awake Club, particip

Rear Admiral Charles H. Stockton the Naval War College and the

ating in its election marches in 1860 to support Abraham Lincoln for president and William Morris Davis for representative from Pennsylvania’s fifth c

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Rear Admiral Charles H. Stockton the Naval War College and theand like many other young boys, the now slxteen-year-old Charles Stockton tried to enlist as a corporal in the cavalry. Rev. Stockton, however, approa

ched a number of people to produce for his son a better opportunity. He wrote to his relative in Washington, Rev. Thomas Stockton, tire chaplain to Co Rear Admiral Charles H. Stockton the Naval War College and the

ngress; Thomas, however discouraged the military idea and argued that Charles should pursue his education, preferably a religious one. “The more I see

Rear Admiral Charles H. Stockton the Naval War College and the

of war,” Thomas Stockton wrote, "the more I value peace. I can only tolerate war, as a sort ofxLxStockton, the War College and the LawProvidential ne

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Rear Admiral Charles H. Stockton the Naval War College and thet that Charles kept in mind, even at the end of his life, when he recorded the note verbatim in a memoir of his early days.) Rev. William Stockton, ho

wever, also wrote to his newly elected congressman, William Davis, asking him to obtain an appointment to West Point. Davis, who had been to sea as a Rear Admiral Charles H. Stockton the Naval War College and the

young man in a whaling ship and later published memoirs of those years,4 suggested that young Stockton should try the Naval Academy, where he had an a

Rear Admiral Charles H. Stockton the Naval War College and the

ppointment available.First Years in the NavyThe Civil War had been going on for six months when Charles Stockton entered the Navy on November 14,1861.

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Rear Admiral Charles H. Stockton the Naval War College and thear terms. The Naval Academy had moved to Newport, Rhode Island, for its security, since a large proportion of the border state of Maryland was disaffe

cted toward the Union. After Charles took and passed the entrance examination for the Naval Academy, his father returned to Pennsylvania and resigned Rear Admiral Charles H. Stockton the Naval War College and the

from one of his two churches, St. James’s Church, and moved to take charge full-time of St. Peter’s at Phoenixville. Charles’s parents lived there for

Rear Admiral Charles H. Stockton the Naval War College and the

the remainder of their lives. Phoenixville became home to Charles on leaves of absence from the Naval Academy and in later years from service afloat.

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