Joseph Wallace Oman’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro United States Navy admiral
Was Military officer 
Soldier 
Officer 
Politician 
From United States of America 
Type Military 
Politics 
Gender male
Birth 15 August 1864, Lightstreet, Columbia County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Death 1 July 1941, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
(aged 76 years)

Joseph Wallace Oman (1864–1941) was a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy and veteran of the Spanish–American War, the Philippine–American War, and World War I. He is a recipient of the Navy Cross. He was also the Governor of the United States Virgin Islands from 1919 to 1921.

Biography

Oman was born in Lightstreet, Pennsylvania, 15 August 1864, the son of Henry Freas Oman and Mary Jane Shannon. In 1908 he married at St. Agnes Chapel in New York City, Virginia Center Morse, daughter of William Henry Morse and Sarah Virginia Center, and granddaughter of Alexander Jenkins Center, Vice President of the Panama Railway. Joseph Wallace and Virginia had four children: Virginia (died in infancy); Joseph Wallace Jr, William Morse Oman, and Virginia Morse Oman. He died 1 July 1941 in London, England. He and his wife are buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA.

He entered the United States Naval Academy in 1882 and graduated 4th in his class of 1886. He was commissioned as an Ensign in 1888 and promoted to Lieutenant, Junior Grade in 1896. During the Philippine–American War, he co.mmanded the gunboat Mariveles. In 1909, he was promoted to Commander. He was promoted to Captain of the Boston Navy Yard in 1914 and served there until 1914.

In July 1917, Captain Oman was given command of the former German ship, the SS Vaterland, now claimed by the United States. The Vaterland was in 1914 the largest passenger ship in the world and by the war it was still one of the largest. Two months later, the ship was re-christened as the USS Leviathan and was used as a troop transport. During the war, Captain Oman successfully avoided submarine patrols, despite the vessel’s huge size, and managed to deliver nearly 120,000 American troops before the end of the war. For these efforts, Oman was awarded the Navy Cross and promoted to Rear Admiral in 1918.

From 1919 until his retirement from the Navy in 1921, Oman served as the military Governor of the United States Virgin Islands. He is credited as having one of the most efficiently running of the early colonial governments and the island prospered, largely thanks to exports of rum. Following his retirement, he eventually moved to London, where he died in 1941.

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