Sue S. Dauser
Sue S. Dauser was the fifth Superintendent of the United States [Navy Nurse Corps], guiding the Nurse Corps through World War II.
Early life
Dauser was born in Anaheim, California, on 20 September 1888. She graduated from the California Hospital School of Nursing in 1914.Navy Nurse Corps career
Dauser became a Navy Nurse in September 1917, subsequently serving with Naval Base Hospital Number 3 in the U.S. and in Edinburgh, Scotland during World War I, holding the grade of Chief Nurse for most of that period. Following World War I, she was placed in charge of nursing activities at the U.S. Naval Hospital at San Diego, California. During the 1920s, Chief Nurse Dauser served on board several ships and in overseas billets in Guam and the Philippines as well as in naval hospitals in the U.S. She tended President Warren G. Harding during his fatal illness in 1923.In the 1930s, Dauser was principal chief nurse at several Navy medical facilities.