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Superintendents
Texas A&M University at Galveston began in 1962 when the Texas A&M Maritime Academy joined the Marine Laboratory of Texas A&M University at Fort Crockett. In 1958 the Marine Laboratory of the oceanography department of Texas A&M had moved into a surplus building at Fort Crockett. Shortly after, the community of Galveston launched a concerted effort to convince Texas A&M to run a state maritime academy and for the State of Texas to fund it. With pushback, A breakthrough come through when the new TAMU president General James Earl Rudder was in Galveston visiting the A&M Marine Laboratory. He said he "would do everything possible to administer a first rate maritime academy". On January 6, 1962 February 24, 1962 Governor Price Daniel signed an enabling bill, and one month later signed an agreement with a With room to spare, and The federal government donated the first training ship, the Texas Clipper, to the Maritime Academy in 1965. In 1968 the campus was expanded with a 100 acre donation by George P. Mitchell on Pelican Island. Land was donated again in 1993 with an additional 35 acre as well as 14 acre on Teichman Road to house TEEX, the sailing and rowing teams. Since then, the academics at Texas A&M at Galveston have been distinctively focused on the ocean: in the fields of marine biology, marine sciences and oceanography, administration, and engineering. Enrollment included 91 students in 1971.
 * 1) CPT Bennett M. Dodson USN 1962 - 1968 (President TAMU & TMA: Earl Rudder, B.S., LL.D.)
 * 2) RADM James D. Craik USCG (Ret) 1968 - 1971
 * 3) RADM John Smith ~ 1974 - 1978 - TAMU Moody College
 * 4) RADM Kenneth G. Haynes ~ 1979 - 80 - Moody College TAMU system
 * 5) ?Ralph Davis (associate dean maritime college) ~ 1985
 * 6) ?William E. Evans ~ 1993,94 - TAMUG
 * 7) William T McMullen ~ 1996 - 2000 - TAMUG
 * 8) Richard Lukens ~ 2000- 2004 - TAMUG
 * 9) James M. McCloy ~2005,06,07(interm) - TAMUG
 * 10) Allen B. Worley - 2008,09
 * 11) William W. Pickavance, Jr - 2009,10
 * 12) RADM Smith ~ 2011 - Present - TAMUG