John Hood (naval officer)

John Hood (3 December 1859 –  11 February 1919) was an admiral of the United States Navy during World War I. He was also a veteran of the Spanish-American War.Hood was born in Florence, Ala., 3 December 1859. He was appointed to the United States Naval Academy in 1875, and graduated from the Naval Academy, second in his class. His first cruise after graduation took him to the South Atlantic in Shenandoah, and he later sailed in Wachusett, Brooklyn, Vandalia, Mohican, Jamestown, Constellation, Bancroft and Kearsarge. Hood was wrecked with Kearsarge 21 February 1894 on Roncador Reef off Central America in the Pacific. He was a lieutenant in Maine (ACR-1) when she was blown up at Havana 15 February 1898.
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