Digest>Jul/Aug 2011
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President William Howard Taft with military aid, Archie Butt, in 1911. Taft was governor of the Philippines when Putnam was assigned there. In 1910 Putnam was appointed under the Taft administration to take charge of the Bureau of Lighthouses. (Lighthouse Digest archives.) Back to the edition of: Jul/Aug 2011
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George Rockwell Putnam
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