Career
They soon invited Charles Dudley Warner and Stephen A. Hubbard to join their newspaper. In 1861, President of the United States Abraham Lincoln appointed Gideon Welles as United States Secretary of the Navy. As a compromise, the post of Assistant Secretary of the Navy was created for Fox, and Faxon joined the United States Department of the Navy as a clerk in March 1861, and then succeeded Fox as chief clerk on July 31, 1861.
As chief clerk of the Navy during the American Civil War, Faxon was in charge of the records, correspondence, and personnel of the Office of the Secretary of the Navy and oversaw the finances of the Department of the Navy.
On June 1, 1866, Faxon succeeded Fox as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, holding this office until 1869. Faxon died in 1883.
