John L. Davis

John Lee Davis (September 3, 1825 – March 12, 1889) was a Rear Admiral of the United States Navy, who served during the American Civil War, and later commanded the Asiatic Squadron.

Biography Davis was born in Carlisle, Indiana, one of seven children born to John Wesley Davis (1799–1859), a doctor and politician, and Ann Hoover (1801–1859).

Davis entered the Navy as a midshipman on 9 January 1841, and was warranted passed midshipman on 10 August 1847.

While serving as acting lieutenant aboard the sloop of the East India Squadron, he commanded one of the boats that boarded a piratical Chinese junk off Macao in November 1849, with another officer and sixteen men, and captured the vessel and crew. They had one child, Katherine L. Davis (1860–1950).