Military Career
| 6 September 1886 | Appointed as naval cadet, United States Naval Academy |
| 6 June 1890 | Graduated United States Naval Academy and began duty on board gunboat USS Alliance |
| 1 July 1892 | Promoted to ensign |
| 1892–1895 | Successive tours of duty on board screw sloop USSAdams and sloop of war USS Mohican |
| 1895 – August 1896 | Bureau of Navigation, Washington, D.C. |
| September 1896 | Gunboat USS Bancroft |
| April–August 1898 | Spanish-American War service aboard Bancroft. |
| 3 March 1899 | Promoted to lieutenant, junior grade |
| 1899 | Philippine-American War duty aboard stores ship USS Celtic |
| early 1900s | New York Navy Yard; fitting out of battleships USS Kentucky and USS Wisconsin |
| June 1904 – June 1906 | Bureau of Navigation, Washington, DC |
| 1 July 1905 | Promoted to lieutenant commander |
| June 1906 – September 1907 | Navigator on board battleship USS Louisiana; service in Cuba |
| September 1907 – March 1908 | First command: commanding officer of Presidential yacht USS Mayflower |
| March 1908 – May 1909 | Navigator on board battleship USS Wisconsin |
| May 1909 – May 1912 | Student at Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island |
| 2 May 1911 | Promoted to commander |
| 2 May 1912 | Transferred to battleship USS Wyoming to fit her out, followed by duty as executive officer of Wyoming. |
| January 1914 – October 1914 | Commanded protected cruiser USS Des Moines; service in U.S. occupation of Veracruz |
| 21 November 1914 – early 1917 | Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island |
| 1917 | Chief of Staff to Commander in Chief, United States Asiatic Fleet. Promoted to Captain, back-dated to 29 August 1916. |
| January 1918 | Reported to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as senior officer of American naval commission |
| 9 January 1919 | Took charge of fitting out of battleship USS Idaho |
| 24 March 1919 | First commanding officer of USS Idaho |
| June 1920 | Chief of Staff to the Commander in Chief, United States Atlantic Fleet |
| 1921 – November 1922 | Commandant, 3rd Naval District at New York City |
| November 1922 | Received orders to organize and lead the U.S. Naval Mission to Brazil. For next two years, he and his staff joined their Brazilian counterparts in reorganizing the Brazilian Navy. Early in this assignment, promoted to rear admiral back-dated to 16 October 1922; first flag officer from California. |
| January 1925 | Completed mission in Brazil and returned to the U.S. on February 7. |
| April 3, 1925 | Became Commander, Battleship Division 2, Scouting Fleet; flagship was battleship USS New York (BB-34) |
| June 1926 | Commander, Light Cruiser Division, Scouting Fleet. |
| 16 February 1927 | Died at Naval Hospital, Washington, D.C. |
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