Notable members of the United States Merchant Marine have included:(Main category: United States Merchant Mariners) * Jim Bagby Jr. – Major League Baseball pitcher * Raymond Bailey – actor * Alvin Baldus – former Democratic member of Congress * Nathaniel Bowditch – author * L. Brent Bozell Jr. – conservative activist and Catholic writer * Lenny Bruce – comedian and poet * Gordon Canfield – Republican congressman from New Jersey * Alfonso J. Cervantes – forty-third Mayor of Saint Louis, Missouri * Granville Conway – public servant, Presidential Medal for Merit recipient * Harvey Cox – preeminent theologian and professor at Harvard Divinity School * Joseph Curran – labor leader * Richard Henry Dana Jr. – author * – first American female master to command a cargo ship sailing in