Henry L. Garrett III

{{Short description|Former US government official (born 1939)}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Henry L. Garrett III

|image = Henry Lawrence Garrett III, official Navy photo, 1987 (3x4 cropped).jpg

|caption = Official portrait, 1987

|office = 68th United States Secretary of the Navy

|president = George H. W. Bush

|term_start = May 15, 1989

|term_end = June 26, 1992

|predecessor = William L. Ball

|successor = J. Daniel Howard {{small|(Acting)}}

|office1 = 24th United States Under Secretary of the Navy

|president1 = Ronald Reagan

|term_start1 = August 6, 1987

|term_end1 = May 15, 1989

|predecessor1 = James F. Goodrich

|successor1 = J. Daniel Howard

|birth_name = Henry Lawrence Garrett III

|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1939|6|24}}

|birth_place = Washington, D.C., U.S.

|death_date =

|death_place =

|party = Republican

|education = University of West Florida {{small|(BS)}}
University of San Diego {{small|(JD)}}

|allegiance = {{flag|United States}}

|branch = {{flag|United States Navy}}

|serviceyears = 1961–1964
1964–1981

|unit = {{USS|Sea Poacher}}
VP-50

|battles = Cold War
{{*}}Cuban Missile Crisis
{{*}}Vietnam War

|mawards = File:Air Medal ribbon.svg Air Medal (2)

}}

Henry Lawrence Garrett III (born June 24, 1939){{cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UOwFAAAAIAAJ&q=Henry+Lawrence+Garrett,+III+1939|title=Department of Defense Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1989: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 4781 .... |first1=United States Congress Senate Committee on |last1=Appropriations |first2=United States Congress Senate Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on |last2=Defense |date=10 February 1988 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |via=Google Books}} served as the 68th Secretary of the Navy from May 15, 1989, to June 26, 1992, in the administration of George H. W. Bush.{{cite book |title=A handbook of American military history: from the Revolutionary War to the present |last=Sweeney |first=Jerry K. |author2=Kevin B. Byrne |page=278 |year=2006 |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |isbn=978-0-8032-9337-3 }} Before leading the Department of the Navy, he served as General Counsel of the Department of Defense.