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Edmund Root
Edmund Spence Root (December 27, 1881 – February 27, 1961) was a United States Navy Captain who served as the 34th Naval Governor of Guam. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1905, serving on many ships as an ensign. He served as the inaugural commanding officer of two ships: the USS ''Rizal'' and the . He served during World War I as commander of the U-boat hunting USS ''Rowan'', for which he received a letter of commendation. As governor, he generated controversy by expelling 112 Japanese laborers from Guam. The Guam Museum also opened during his term of office.
==Naval career==
Root was appointed to the United States Naval Academy from Ohio in 1901. He reported aboard the USS ''Alabama'' in 1906, and 1908 he served aboard the USS ''Maine'' as an ensign. On April 4, 1910, he began service aboard the USS ''Bainbridge''.
In 1913, he served aboard the USS ''Glacier''. During World War I, Root served within the Bureau of Navigation and then with the Destroyer fleet stationed out of Queenstown, Ireland. In the war, he commanded the USS ''Rowan'', specifically seeking out and engaging German U-boats, for which he received a letter of commendation. On May 28, 1919, Root set sail aboard the USS ''Rizal'' as her first commanding officer. In 1934, he served as the first commanding officer of the . In the 1940s, he headed the naval officer procurement program in Chicago, where he oversaw the area's initial WAVES program.
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