User:Patr2016/sandbox/George Calver

George Calver (c.1888-1972) was an American physician and Naval officer who served as the first Attending Physician of the United States Congress from 1928 until his retirement in 1966. He graduated from George Washington University Medical School in 1912, and began serving in the Medical Corps of the U.S. Navy in 1913. He had two daughters, both of whom married Navy doctors. A cardiologist and gerontologist by training, Dr. Calver maintained an archive of more than 1,500 ECG scans, believed at one time to be the largest in the world. He was a veteran of the Philippine-American War and thereafter was made a grand paramount in the Military Order of the Carabao. In 1928, due to a number of high profile injuries and deaths of members of the House of Representatives, Congressman Frederick A. Britten introduced House Resolution 253, which directed the Secretary of the Navy (at the time Curtis D. Wilbur) to assign a Naval medical officer to attend to the House when it was in session. The resolution was unanimously carried. Dr. Calver was initially assigned for three years, but his care was of such a quality that in 1930 Congress made him the permanent physician to all members. Shortly before his retirement in October 1966, Dr. Calver was awarded the Navy Distinguished Service Medal for "exceptionally meritorious and distinguished service in a position of great responsibility to the Government of the United States as Attending Physician at the Capitol of the United States". After his retirement, Dr. Calver was replaced as Attending Physician by Dr. Rufus Judson Pearson, the former chief of medical and clinical services at Bethesda Naval Hospital.

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https://history.house.gov/HistoricalHighlight/Detail/35288

https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/305561

http://usstranquillity.blogspot.com/2012/02/look-back-vadm-george-weynes-calver-mc.html

https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/869802474/

https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GPO-CRECB-1929-pt1-v70/GPO-CRECB-1929-pt1-v70-3-2 Specifically, this pdf: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CRECB-1929-pt1-v70/pdf/GPO-CRECB-1929-pt1-v70-3-2.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/10/12/121502375.html?pageNumber=22