Jacob Crowninshield (March 31 1770 – April 15 1808) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts and appointee to the position of U.S. Secretary of the Navy which he never filled. His brother Benjamin Williams Crowninshield did successfully hold the post; the Crowninshield family in general was prominent in early American maritime affairs. His ancestor Johann Casper Richter von Kronenscheldt immigrated from Leipzig. He was the grandfather of Arent S.
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