Perry family

Perry
Portrait of Captain Oliver Hazard Perry, USN (1839) by Edward L. Mooney
Current regionSouth Kingstown, Rhode Island, and New England
Place of originEngland
Ireland
Scotland
Connected familiesRodgers family
Belmont family
Whitney family
Vanderbilt family
Randolph family
De Peyster family
Estate(s)Commodore Oliver Perry Farm, Sion Hill (Havre De Grace, Maryland), Belcourt
Military career
Allegiance United States of America
Years of service1799–

The Perry family is an American naval and political dynasty from Rhode Island whose members have included several United States naval commanders, naval aviators, politicians, artists, clergymen, lawyers, physicians, and socialites. Progeny of a mid-17th-century English immigrant to South Kingstown, Rhode Island, the Perry family patriarch, Captain Christopher Raymond Perry, and his two sons Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry and Commodore Matthew C. Perry, were seminal figures in the legitimization of the United States Navy and establishment of the United States Naval Academy.