Pacific Squadron
- Captain John Downes 1818-1820
- Captain Charles Goodwin Ridgely 1820-1821
- Commodore Charles Stewart 1821-1823
- Commodore Isaac Hull 1823–1827
- Commodore Jacob Jones 1826-1829
- Commodore Charles C. B. Thompson 1829-1831
- Commodore John Downes 1832-1834
- Commodore Alexander Scammel Wadsworth 1834 to 1836
- Commodore Henry E. Ballard 1837-1839
- Commodore Alexander Claxton 1839-1841
- Commodore Thomas ap Catesby Jones 1842-1843
- Commodore Alexander J. Dallas 1843-1844
- Captain James Armstrong 1844
- Commodore John Drake Sloat 1844-1846
- Commodore Robert Field Stockton 1846
- Commodore James Biddle March 2 to July 19, 1847
- Commodore W. Branford Shubrick 1847-1848
- Commodore Thomas ap Catesby Jones 1848 - 1850
- Commodore Charles S. McCauley 1850-1853
- Commodore Bladen Dulany 1853-1855
- Commodore William Mervine September 1855-October 1857
- Commodore John C. Long 1857-1859
- Commodore John B. Montgomery 1859 - Jan. 2 1862
- Acting Rear Admiral Charles H. Bell Jan. 2 1862 - October 25, 1864
- Rear Admiral George F. Pearson, October 4, 1864 – 1866
North Pacific Squadron 1866-1869
- Rear Admiral Henry K. Thatcher 1866-1868
- Rear Admiral Thomas T. Craven 1868-1869
South Pacific Squadron 1866-1869
- Rear Admiral George F. Pearson, October 25, 1866 – 1867
- Rear Admiral John A. B. Dahlgren 1867-1869
- Rear Admiral Thomas Turner 1869-1870
Pacific Station 1872-1878
- Rear Admiral Thomas Turner 1869-1870
- Rear Admiral John Ancrum Winslow 1870-1872
Pacific Squadron 1878-1907
- Rear Admiral Christopher Raymond Perry Rodgers 1878-1880
- Rear Admiral Thomas H. Stevens 1880-1881
- Commodore Joseph S. Skerrett 1892-1893
- Rear Admiral Lester A. Beardslee 1894 - 1897
- Rear Admiral JN Miller July 27, 1898
- Rear Admiral Silas Casey III 1901 - 1903
- Rear Admiral Henry Glass 1903 - March 1905
- Rear Admiral Caspar Frederick Goodrich 1905 - 1906
- Rear Admiral William T. Swinburne 1906 - 1907
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“I need not tell you of the inadequacy of the American shipping marine on the Pacific Coast.... For this reason it seems to me that there is no subject to which Congress can better devote its attention in the coming session than the passage of a bill which shall encourage our merchant marine in such a way as to establish American lines directly between New York and the eastern ports and South American ports, and both our Pacific Coast ports and the Orient and the Philippines.”
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