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Geoffrey Marsh Footner was born in Baltimore, Maryland on September 1, 1923. He attended Loyola University Maryland, but left to join the Navy during World War II. After being discharged, he returned to Loyola and received a bachelor's degree in economics on the GI Bill. He later did graduate work show more at Johns Hopkins University. He worked as a foreign trade representative for the Association of Commerce and secretary of the Foreign Trade Forum of Baltimore. In 1950, he and Roberto M. Gutierrez established Footner & Co. They focused their business on ocean and air shipping. Footner also established Intermodal Transports Inc. with Rolf Graage and Bay Agencies. He retired from the shipping industry in the early 1980s. His first book, The Last Generation: A History of a Chesapeake Shipbuilding Family - M.M. Davis and Son, was published in 1991. His other books included Tidewater Triumph: The Development and Worldwide Success of the Chesapeake Bay Pilot Schooner; USS Constellation: From Frigate to Sloop of War; and A Bungled Affair: Britain's War on the United States - the Final Years, 1814-1815. He died from heart failure on April 5, 2018 at the age of 94. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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