Personal Life
The scion of an old Navy family, McCormick was remembered as a man of extreme reserve of manner who was viewed by associates as the precisely correct quarterdeck admiral. A SACLANT subordinate recalled him as "a delightful, smart clean-cut gentleman." He is buried with his wife in the Naval Academy cemetery.
He married the former Lillian Addison Sprigg on October 2, 1920, and they had three sons: Navy commander Montrose Graham, who commanded a submarine during World War II and was killed in a plane crash in Australia in 1945; Navy officer Lynde Dupuy Jr.; and Marine James Jett II, who was severely wounded at the Battle of Okinawa. His father, Rear Admiral Albert Montgomery Dupuy McCormick, was a Spanish-American War veteran and former fleet surgeon for the Atlantic Fleet.
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