Richard R. McNulty

Richard Robert McNulty, Rear Admiral USN, Vice Admiral USMS, was born in Glouster, Massachusetts on April 20, 1899 and died in Boston, Massachusetts on November 1, 1980. The United States Merchant Marine Academy community considers United States Navy Vice Admiral McNulty, a WWII veteran, who had long advocated for the Academy's creation, its "Father". The Academy's McNulty Campus is named for the Vice Admiral. He served as the Academy's 3rd superintendent. Admiral McNulty was, too, a professor emeritus at Georgetown University.

Career
McNulty served as a Merchant marine officer from 1917-1920 and with the U.S. Dept. of Navy, where he began as a nautical specialist, from 1920-1937. He was supervisor of the U.S. Merchant Marine Cadet Corps of the U.S. Maritime Commission from 1938-1948. McNulty was on active duty in the U.S. Navy during WWII from 1942, thereafter, until 1946 and, there during, served to the then rank of Commodore. McNulty was, thence, appointed the 3rd superintendent of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, at Kings Point, New York, the latest of the five United States Service academies and an institution for which McNulty had advocated since the late 1920s, in 1946 and continued to serve as the Academy's superintendent until his retirement from the military in 1948. McNulty was a member of the Society of Naval Architects and Engineers.

Education
Richard Robert McNulty graduated from the Massachusetts Nautical School (1919) and, then, received a B.S. from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University (1922).

Major military decorations and other honors

 * Order of Naval Merit (Cuba, 1939)
 * Legion of Merit (U.S., 1946)
 * Georgetown University’s McNulty Foreign Service Scholarship (established 1945) is named for Vice Admiral McNulty.
 * The Vice Admiral Richard R. McNulty Award is among the awards bestowed annually upon members of the USMMA graduating class.