Crypt of John Paul Jones

John Paul Jones has been lauded since 1775 as the Father of the US Navy.  His influence and leadership were foundational in the establishment of our Navy and in many ways the success of our War of Independence.

The corporal remains of John Paul Jones were interred into the crypt beneath the Naval Academy crypt in 1906 in a ceremony presided over by President Theodore Roosevelt.  From the point of his death in 1792 until then John Paul Jones' remains had been in a grave in France, where he died.