Who turned Tillman's demands into battleship drawings

Who actually designed the Tillman maximum battleships?

Government naval engineers with the required expertise, responding to political requests rather than proposing an ordinary fleet programme.

Senator Tillman's requests did not originate as a normal Navy building programme. The federal engineering organization with the necessary naval architects had to translate his extreme requirements into workable drawings. Those designers explored what was physically possible rather than endorsing the resulting ships. The studies therefore reveal the boundary between political direction and professional design work inside the American naval bureaucracy.