Thomas R. Cooley
Thomas Ross Cooley (born June 26, 1893 in Grass Valley , California , † November 28, 1959 in Quantico , Virginia ) was an admiral in the United States Navy .
Life
Cooley was born on June 26, 1893 in Grass Valley, California to Thomas Ross and Mary Adelaide Cota Cooley. He graduated from Grass Valley High School in 1911 and was proposed by Congressman John F. Baker for admission to the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis . After graduating from the Naval Academy in March 1917, Cooley was transferred to the battleship USS Florida , which operated together with the British Home Fleet in European waters until the end of the First World War . On April 21, 1919, he married Adelaide Prescott Morris of Washington, DC , whom he had met while at the Naval Academy. In the fall of 1920, Cooley left Florida and was transferred to various destroyers in the Pacific Fleet, where he served as navigator and executive officer. From October 1922 to 1924 and from January 1927 to 1929 he was employed as an instructor in the Naval Academy, in the meantime he was XO on the destroyer USS Pruitt in East Asia. In 1929, Cooley became aide-de-camp of Rear Admiral Edward Hale Campbell .
In April 1931, Cooley received his first command, the destroyer USS Yarnall , which he commanded until 1932. He was then transferred to the Bureau of Navigation, during his two years' service there he also served as a gun officer and navigator on the light cruiser USS Concord . In 1937, Cooley was reassigned to the Naval Academy as an instructor, and in 1940 he was transferred to the heavy cruiser USS Wichita as Executive Officer . In 1941 he was given command of the transport ship USS Almaack , with which he took part in missions in the North Atlantic and South Pacific. In June 1942, Cooley was transferred to the Bureau of Naval Personnel as a planning officer before he was given command of the battleship USS Washington in April 1944 . In November 1944, Cooley was promoted to Rear Admiral, replacing Willis A. Lee as Commander in Chief of Battleship Division Six. Under his command, the Battleship Division Six attacked Japanese ships in the South China Sea and shelled land targets on the main Japanese islands. After the end of the war and the return to the US West Coast at the end of 1945, Cooley was given command of all cruisers and battleships of the US Atlantic Fleet and later the supreme command of the 4th US Fleet.
After a short time in 1946 as commander of a task unit and the midshipmen training squadron , he was appointed commander of the Newport Naval Base in Rhode Island in 1947 , where he was also interim president of the Naval War College for a few months in 1950 . In 1951 he was appointed commander of the "Western Sea Frontier", which was responsible for the entire western United States. In 1952, Cooley retired.
Thomas Ross Cooley died of a heart attack on November 28, 1959 at his daughter's home in Quantico, Virginia. He was buried in the Jefferson Historic Site in Monticello .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Tabular curriculum vitae of Thomas Ross Cooley ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on usswashington.com as of August 19, 2009
- ^ NWC Past Presidents ( Memento of June 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), as of August 19, 2009
- ^ Thomas R. Cooley in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved March 3, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cooley, Thomas R. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cooley, Thomas Ross (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | United States Navy Admiral |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 26, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Grass Valley, California |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 28, 1959 |
| Place of death | Quantico, Virginia |