Dr. Dean Conrad Allard, Jr. (October 19, 1933 – September 27, 2018) was a naval historian and archivist.
[3] After serving in the United States Navy from 1955 to 1958, he returned to graduate school in history at Georgetown University, where he earned his M.A.
degree in 1959 with a thesis on "The Influence of the United States Navy upon the American Steel Industry, 1880-1900.
"[4] He completed his Ph.D. at the George Washington University in 1967 under Professor Wood Gray with a dissertation on "Spencer Fullerton Baird and the U.S.
In addition, he served as President of the Arlington Historical Society from 1974 to 1975; member of the council of Woodlawn Plantation in Fairfax, Virginia, from 1976 to 1984; chairman of the Historical Commission of Arlington, Virginia, from 1978 to 1980; and member of the French-U.S. Scientific Committee on the CSS Alabama from 1991 to 1995.