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four-star admiral. The rank of admiral (or full admiral, or four-star admiral) is the highest rank normally achievable in the United States Navy. It ranks above vice admiral (three-star admiral) and below fleet admiral (five-star admiral). There have been 279 four-star admirals in the history of the U.S. Navy.
Patrick M. Walsh – admiral, Vice Chief of Naval Operations; Helen Turner Watson – one of the first African American women to receive a Navy commission, as ensign in 1945. Robert F. Willard – admiral, former Vice Chief of Naval Operations; John Wooden – famous college basketball coach
List of United States Navy four-star admirals; List of United States Navy tombstone vice admirals; List of United States Navy vice admirals from 2000 to 2009; List of United States Navy vice admirals from 2010 to 2019; List of United States Navy vice admirals on active duty before 1960; List of United States Navy vice admirals since 2020
Hyman G. Rickover (27 January 1900 [3] – 8 July 1986) was an admiral in the United States Navy.He directed the original development of naval nuclear propulsion and controlled its operations for three decades as director of the U.S. Naval Reactors office.
Coat of Arms of David Farragut. James Glasgow Farragut was born in 1801 to George Farragut (born Jordi Farragut Mesquida, 1755–1817), a Spanish Balearic merchant captain from the Mediterranean island of Menorca, and his wife Elizabeth (née Shine, 1765–1808), of North Carolina Scotch-Irish American descent, at Lowe's Ferry on the Holston River in Tennessee. [9]
1762 – General-Admiral Tsar Paul I (1754–1801) 1784 – General-Field marshal Prince Grigori Potemkin (1739–1791) 1796 – Navy General-Field marshal Count Ivan Chernyshyov (1726–1797) 1831 – General-Admiral Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia (1827–1892) 1883 – General-Admiral Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich (1850–1908)
Elmo Russell "Bud" Zumwalt Jr. (November 29, 1920 – January 2, 2000) was a United States Navy officer and the youngest person to serve as Chief of Naval Operations.As an admiral and later the 19th Chief of Naval Operations, Zumwalt played a major role in United States military history, especially during the Vietnam War.
Secretary of the Navy's Advisory Subcommittee on Naval History Joseph Paul Reason (born March 22, 1941, in Washington, D.C. ) was Commander in Chief, United States Atlantic Fleet from 1996 to 1999. Earlier in his career, as a commander, he was naval aide to the President of the United States, Jimmy Carter , from December 1976 to June 1979.