Herbert Livingston Satterlee (1863-1947) was an American

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 lawyer

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, writer

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, and businessman who served as United States

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 Assistant Secretary of the Navy

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 from 1908 to 1909.

Biography

Herbert Livingston Satterlee was born in New York City

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 in 1863. Satterlee had a successful law practice, focused primarily on corporate law

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 and commercial law

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; he was senior law partner

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 at Satterlee, Canfield and Stone. In 1900, he married Louise Pierpont Morgan, daughter of J. P. Morgan

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In 1908, President of the United States

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 Theodore Roosevelt

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 nominated Satterlee as Assistant Secretary of the Navy

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. Satterlee held this office from December 3, 1908 to March 5, 1909.

In 1910, Satterlee and his wife purchased the Sotterley Plantation in Hollywood, Maryland

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Satterlee authored several books, including a 1939 biography of his father-in-law entitled J. Pierpont Morgan: An Intimate Portrait.