Henry Hughes Hough

Henry Hughes Hough

Henry Hughes Hough (born January 8, 1871 in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon , †  September 9, 1943 in New York City ) was an American naval officer. He was military governor of the US Virgin Islands in 1922 and 1923 .

Career

Henry graduated in 1891 Hough the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis ( Maryland ). He then served between 1891 and 1935 as an officer in the US Navy , in which he rose over the decades to Rear Admiral . During the Spanish-American War of 1898 he served aboard the torpedo boat USS Morris . He then held various military posts in the Navy. He worked temporarily for the naval intelligence service. In 1911 he became a naval attaché in France . He later held this office in Russia . He also took part in the First World War. In 1918 he was a delegate at a conference on prisoners of war that took place in Bern , Switzerland . Hough then commanded the gunboat USS Wilmington and the battleships USS Utah and USS New York .

In 1922, Henry Hough was named the new military governor of the Virgin Islands, replacing Sumner Ely Wetmore Kittelle . He held this office between September 16, 1922 and December 3, 1923. Between 1923 and 1925, Hough was in charge of naval intelligence and in 1925 and 1926 he commanded the patrol ships on the Yangtze River in China . Since 1924 he held the rank of rear admiral. In 1935 he retired from military service; then he retired. Henry Hough died in New York on September 9, 1943 and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery , Virginia .

Web links

• Henry Hughes Hough in the database of Find a Grave (English)