His extended family's descendants include Commander John Rodgers, the second person to become a United States naval aviator, and well known civilian aviator Calbraith Perry Rodgers, the first person to fly an airplane—the "Vin Fiz"—across the United States. Perry's nephew by marriage, George Champlin Mason, Sr., was a noted architect and historian. Oliver Hazard Perry La Farge (December 19, 1901 – August 2, 1963), Perry's great-great-grandson and namesake, was an American writer and anthropologist, best known for his 1930 Pulitzer Prize–winning novel "Laughing Boy". His great-grandnephew Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont (November 12, 1858 – June 10, 1908) from Buffalo, NY was an American socialite and United States Representative from New York. Perry's great-grandniece, Ruth Black (November 1893 – September 3, 1964), married Gulf Oil executive Willard F. Jones. Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton (August 4, 1823 – November 1, 1877) (no relation)—the 14th Governor of Indiana, a famous Republican politician and U.S. Senator, who was a leader among the Radical Republican reconstructionists—was named in his honor. Although Perry is often referred to as "Commodore Perry", it should be kept in mind that, prior to the American Civil War, commodore was not a rank in the U.S. Navy but, rather, the title of an officer in command of a squadron of two or more ships. Perry first held the title of commodore when he took command of the Lake Erie squadron in 1813. Note – Time gaps between assignments were probably in a "waiting orders" status. Many locations, both in Rhode Island and near Lake Erie, are named in his honor, including:   An eastbound service plaza along the Ohio Turnpike is named the Commodore Perry Service Plaza, located in Sandusky County, Ohio. The national monument commemorating Perry is the Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial at Put-In-Bay, Ohio. Its tower, the world's most massive Doric column, was constructed by a multi-state commission between 1912 and 1915. Other monuments include:   In 2016, principal photography began on "We Have Met the Enemy", a feature-length documentary produced by Lou Reda ("Vietnam in HD", "The Blue and the Gray"), for a planned spring 2017 release. Commodore Perry has been repeatedly honored with ships bearing his name.