Youneverknow III

[Baker, John]

Specifically, there never was a War Department as such, although it was often called that.  The Department of War was established on August 7, 1789, in the seventh statute passed by Congress.  It retained that title until passage of the National Security Act of 1947, which transmogrified it into the Department of the Army, which in 1949 was made part of the Department of Defense.

John Baker


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According to Wikipedia, they continued believing that until 1947, though it was also called the War Department: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Department_of_War

Benjamin Barrett
Seattle, WA

On Jul 8, 2012, at 3:24 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:

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> There never was a Department of War?
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> In 1832 they thought there was:
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> http://www.jstor.org/stable/60205341
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> DanG
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> On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 2:53 PM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>
>> Wilson wrote: <<<Department of War > Department of Defense  >
>> Department of Good?>>>
>> WB: I once heard Hal Gleason rant that there never was a Department
>> of War or a Defense Department: it was a War Department and is a
>> Department of Defense.
>> War Office > War Department > Department of Defense > *Homeland "R" Us?
>>

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