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This is a photo of the USS Lexington's (CV-2) "plank owner" commander, Captain (later, Read Admiral) Albert Ware Marshall, next to a "World Records" plaque affixed to the ship commemorating the ship's speed record described below in an Associated Press report in the Tuesday, June 12, 1928 edition of the Chicago Daily Tribune: NAVY AIRCRAFT CARRIER SETS WORLD RECORD

Washington, D.C., June 11. - (AP) - By steaming over the waters of the Pacific Ocean at an average speed of 29.2 knots an hour for 24 hours, the giant aircraft carrier Lexington established a world record day's run of 700 nautical miles. When the commander of the 33,000 ton vessel advised the Navy Department of the achievement today, the Lexington was traveling 30.4 knots an hour and indications were that she may surpass the record the first 24 hours on her 2,228 nautical mile trip from San Pedro, Cal., to Honolulu, where she is due to arrive tomorrow at 1 p.m. Captain A.W. Marshall, skipper of the powerful craft, reported that the vessel weighed anchor at San Pedro at noon Saturday.

See also: www.findagrave.com/memorial/58390545/albert-ware-marshall

Marshall was Governor of Indiana, but now is newly elected V.P. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_R._Marshall

Two days before the inauguration. Apparently Marshall arrived in town before Wilson.

Photo taken on Sunday, March 2, 1913, outside the church attended by Indiana Governor Thomas Riley Marshall and his wife Lois, in Washington, D. C. Marshall, the Vice President Elect, arrived in Washington before the March 4 Inauguration Day, accompanied by an honor guard of 60 black horse troop cadets from Indiana's Culver Military Academy.

Vice President Marshall arrived at Gettysburg on the afternoon of July 3, 1913 for the purpose of addressing the assembled Civil War Veterans at the 50th Anniversary commemorationso of the Battle of Gettysburg (battle ran from July 1 to July 3 1863 See this report from the New Yrok Times of the next day, July 4, 1913: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F01E0DD153FE6...

Thanks lifeasdaddy for the link to the NYTimes article and for connecting the photographs from this group that were taken at the same event at Gettysburg. We'll fill in the caption information next time we update this record.

There are a bunch of other photographs in the Bain Collection related to this event, although not yet uploaded to Flickr. Most of them are consistent with the newspaper description of the event, such as the tented encampment etcetera. You can find them by searching for "gettysburg" in the Bain Collection at the LOC. This link should work for the search page: lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/ggbainquery.html

During a debate in the U. S. Senate, Thomas Riley Marshall coined the immortal phrase, "What this country needs is a really good five-cent cigar." (As Vice President, he presided over the Senate.)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Riley_Marshall