IV 
113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 117 
Expressing the sense of Congress that the United States Postal Service 
should issue a commemorative postage stamp honoring Admiral Ben 
Moreell and that the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee should rec-
ommend to the Postmaster General that such a stamp be issued. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 18, 2014 
Mr. LANCE submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred 
to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Expressing the sense of Congress that the United States 
Postal Service should issue a commemorative postage 
stamp honoring Admiral Ben Moreell and that the Citi-
zens’ Stamp Advisory Committee should recommend to 
the Postmaster General that such a stamp be issued. 
Whereas Admiral Moreell served his country with distinction 
during World Wars I and II in the United States Navy; 
Whereas President Franklin Delano Roosevelt personally se-
lected Commander Moreell to be the Chief of the Bureau 
of Yards and Docks and the Chief of Civil Engineers of 
the Navy on December 1, 1937, and advanced him to the 
rank of Rear Admiral; 
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Whereas Rear Admiral Moreell urged the construction of two 
giant dry-docks at Pearl Harbor and initiated Navy con-
struction projects on Midway and Wake Island, which 
were instrumental in repairing the battleships damaged 
in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 
1941; 
Whereas Rear Admiral Moreell recognized the need for a 
militarized Naval Construction force during World War 
II began organizing and manning Naval construction 
units in the Pacific; 
Whereas Rear Admiral Moreell gained authority from the Bu-
reau of Navigation to recruit men from the construction 
trades for assignment to a Naval Construction Regiment 
composed of three Naval Construction Battalions on Jan-
uary 5, 1942; 
Whereas Rear Admiral Moreell was granted permission for 
the construction battalions to use the name ‘‘Seabees’’, 
who obtained their designation from the initial letters of 
Construction Battalion, on March 5, 1942; 
Whereas Rear Admiral Moreell created the motto of the Sea-
bees: Construimus, Batuimus, ‘‘We Build, We Fight’’; 
Whereas Rear Admiral Moreell became the Chief of the 
Navy’s Material Division in 1943 and at the request of 
Vice President Truman, negotiated a settlement to the 
national strike of oil refinery workers; 
Whereas Rear Admiral Moreell became the first staff corps 
officer to achieve the rank of Admiral in the history of 
the United States Navy on June 11, 1946; 
Whereas Admiral Moreell turned his attention to industry for 
the next 12 years as President of Turner Construction 
Company then as President, Chief Executive Officer, and 
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Chairman of the Board of Jones and Laughlin Steel 
Company; 
Whereas Admiral Moreell served as Chairman of the Task 
Force on Water Resources and Power of the Second Hoo-
ver Commission which President Herbert Hoover called 
‘‘the most far-reaching and penetrating inquiry into our 
water problems ever made in our history’’; 
Whereas Admiral Moreell’s life was punctuated by accom-
plishments, awards, and well-earned recognition in which 
he, among other things, received 12 honorary doctoral de-
grees, was elected to the National Academy of Engineer-
ing and was named one of the 10 men who contributed 
most to the advancement of construction methods in the 
United States between 1925 and 1975; 
Whereas the Seabees named their Kuwait facility Camp 
Moreell in honor of Admiral Moreell; and 
Whereas Admiral Ben Moreell is known as the Father of the 
Navy’s Seabees: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That it is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) the United States Postal Service should 
issue a commemorative postage stamp honoring Ad-
miral Ben Moreell; and 
(2) the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee 
should recommend to the Postmaster General that 
such stamp be issued. 
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