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Article: BRAVE NAVY OFFICER LEFT LEGACIES FOR SAILORS, VIRGINIA.(DAILY BREAK)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- August 12, 1998
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Byline: LARRY MADDRY
THE U.S. NAVY, Virginia and Norfolk have strong ties to Commodore Uriah Phillips Levy, whose life is celebrated in an exhibit at the Sheraton Norfolk Hotel during the National Convention of Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A.
A superior man who did not suffer fools gladly, Levy (1792-1862) is remembered as the father of the law abolishing corporal punishment in the Navy.
A longtime admirer of Thomas Jefferson, the commodore made a gift of the famous sculpture of Jefferson by Pierre David d'Angers to the American people. The bronze sculpture in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda is the only statue there donated to the country by a ...