Henry Hughes Hough was born in Saint-Pierre, Newfoundland. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1891. After graduation, he served on the Morris a torpedo boat during the Spanish-American War. After the war, he was assigned to Naval Intelligence. He was made the Navy attaché to France in 1911 and later to Russia.
In 1914, he was given his first command of the gunboat Wilmington assigned to the Naval Academy. In 1923, he was appointed Director of Naval Intelligence being promoted to Rear Admiral in 1924. He retired from the Navy in 1935 after serving for 44 years. He died in 1943, he was 72.
What you may not know about Henry is that in 1922, he was appointed as the Governor of the United States Virgin Islands, being the first non-acting military governor to govern as a Captain, rather than a Rear Admiral and the first not to be born in the United States.
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