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September 23, 2009
Paul B. Fay, American sailor and politician, United States Secretary of the Navy (born 1918)
Paul B. Fay
Paul Burgess Fay Jr. was the Acting United States Secretary of the Navy in November 1963, and a close confidant of President John F. Kennedy.
United States Secretary of the Navy
The secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) is a statutory officer and the head of the Department of the Navy, a military department within the United States Department of Defense. On March 25, 2025, John Phelan was confirmed as Secretary of the Navy.