John Hood

John Hood (3 December 1859 – 11 February 1919) was a rear admiral of the United States Navy during World War I. He was also a veteran of the Spanish–American War.

Biography Hood was born in Florence, Alabama, on 3 December 1859. He was appointed to the United States Naval Academy in 1875, and graduated from the Naval Academy, second in his class, with only Randolph H. Miner having a higher order of merits. His first cruise after graduation took him to the South Atlantic in the sloop-of-war , and he later sailed in the , , , , , , and . Hood was wrecked with Kearsarge on 21 February 1894 near Roncador Cay off Central America in the Pacific. He was a lieutenant in the battleship when she was blown up at Havana on 15 February 1898.