Richard R. McNulty

Richard Robert McNulty was a former United States Navy rear admiral and a former United States Maritime Service vice admiral,[1] was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, on April 20, 1899, and died in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 1, 1980.

The United States Merchant Marine Academy community considers Vice Admiral McNulty, a World War II veteran, who had long advocated for the academy's creation, its "Father".

Vice Admiral McNulty was, too, a professor emeritus at Georgetown University.

Merchant Marine Cadet Corps of the United States Maritime Commission from 1938 to 1948.

He was on active duty in the U.S. Navy during World War II from 1942 until 1946, attaining the rank of commodore.