Edward J. Dorn (January 12, 1854 – December 10, 1937) was a captain in the United States Navy.
Dorn was court-martialed in 1895 for an incident involving the death of a gunner on USS Olympia.
[2] In 1901, Dorn was briefly acting-Commandant (and therefore acting-Governor) of American Samoa while Commandant Benjamin Franklin Tilley was away on leave.
On 20 April 1904, Captain Edward John Dorn took command of USS Castine.
[3] Based in part on this experience, he was appointed as the Governor of Guam on December 28, 1907, and remained there until November 5, 1910.