ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The United States Naval Academy renamed its engineering building Friday after Jimmy Carter, the 39th U.S. President and 1946 academy graduate.
Formerly named Maury Hall for Matthew Fontaine Maury, an American oceanographer and naval officer who joined the Confederacy during the Civil War, the hall was one of two buildings and a street on The Yard recommended to be renamed by a federal task force last year. The Naming Commission was formed by the National Defense Authorization Act and was given three years to examine Confederate symbols on military installations.
According to its final report, submitted to Congress in August, the task force recommended that Maury Hall, and Buchanan House and Buchanan Road, named after Franklin Buchanan, the first superintendent of the academy, should be renamed. The academy has not yet announced when the latter two names will be changed.
