Lieutenant John Joseph Clausey is a Notable burial at https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/goldengate.asp. He received the Medal of Honor while serving in the U.S. Navy on board the U.S.S. Bennington for extraordinary heroism when a boiler exploded on the vessel at San Diego, California, July 21, 1905. Clausey was born May 16, 1875, in San Francisco, California and joined the navy where he was stationed aboard the USS Bennington (PG-4) as a chief gunner's mate. On July 21, 1905, one of the USS Bennington's boilers exploded while it was in San Diego, California. For his actions he received the Medal of Honor on January 5, 1906.

Clausey was warranted as a gunner on February 3, 1908, and promoted to chief gunner on February 3, 1914. During World War I he received a temporary promotion to lieutenant on July 1, 1918. 

He was promoted permanently to lieutenant on December 31, 1921, and retired from the Navy on August 1, 1929.  Clausey died in 1951.  https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/1949.
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