Notable Residents
During the 1930s and 1940s, there were many military officers living at the Kennedy-Warren. In 1937 alone, there were 75 officers in the building, including 5 generals. Admiral Royal Eason Ingersoll (1883–1976) lived there during World War II. He was commander in chief of the Atlantic Fleet and is credited with organizing the defeat of the German U-boat fleet during the war. Major General “Pa” Watson (1883–1945) lived with his wife in penthouse apartment 1102 from 1933 to 1945. General Watson was President Franklin Roosevelt’s senior military aide and appointment secretary. He accompanied FDR on all his travels, and died on shipboard in February 1945 while returning from the Yalta Conference. Harry Hopkins (1890–1946), FDR’s closest political adviser, lived in the Kennedy-Warren during the 1930s. Hopkins headed three major New Deal agencies, including the Works Progress Administration. Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973) and his wife, Lady Bird, lived in a three-bedroom apartment in 1937 and 1938 when he first came to Washington as a junior congressman from Texas. Lt. Leslie B. Knox, an Australian-born Coral Sea Battle naval hero after whom USS L. B. Knox was named, lived there with his wife, Louise Kennedy Knox, who sponsored the destroyer in 1943. Biochemist, Benjamin R. Jacobs and his wife, Margaret Connell Jacobs, maintained a residence at the Kennedy-Warren.
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