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Here’s looking at you … JULIANNE AND OLIVER SEMMES

March 14, 2013 | Staff Reporters

Although Oliver Semmes graduated from Pensacola High School and Alabama Polytechnic Institute with a degree in industrial management and a Navy ROTC commission as an ensign, then retired from the Navy a captain, there’s no bronze statue of him like the one in Mobile of his great-great grandfather, naval hero, Admiral Raphael Semmes.