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Two people can claim this title, John Paul Jones and John Barry. Jones is the popular choice for his famous quote "I have not yet begun to fight"
John Paul Jones who incidentally was an Englishman is the father of the U.S.N.
John Barry came along later
Source for this answer: DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER, 805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD, WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060
"The importance of the sea as a highway, a source of food or a battlefield, if necessary, was well understood by the American colonists. When the Revolution came, it was a natural impulse, therefore, that many men in numerous locations would play prominent roles in the founding of a national navy. Thus, the Navy recognizes no one individual as "Father" to the exclusion of all others. As it was the Continental Congress, convoked in Philadelphia, that created the Navy in their resolution of 13 October 1775, the members of Congress must collectively receive credit for the creation of the Continental Navy, the forerunner of the United States Navy. The various attempts to credit individual naval officers with this act are misguided, for those officers received their commissions from the very body that created the Navy in the first place. None of this, of course, detracts from the great contributions to our struggle at sea for independence made by General Washington, John Barry, John Paul Jones, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and others."
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There is no one person who has been said to be the father of the USN
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Who was known as the Father of the American Navy.?
John Paul Jones
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It isn't lost. John Paul Jones is considered the Father of the US Navy.
What did john paul john do?
If you mean John Paul Jones, he was a Scotsman who became the Father of the US Navy.
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