Richardson Clover Rear Admiral Richardson Clover ( July 11 , 1846 – October 14 , 1919 ) was an officer of the United States Navy . An 1867 graduate of the United States Naval Academy , he was a noted hydrographer , served as Director of Naval Intelligence , and commanded the gunboat during the Spanish - American War . He was socially prominent in Washington , D . C . and served as US Naval Attaché to Great Britain . He commanded the on the Asiatic Station and served as President of the Board of Inspection and Survey . He was promoted to Rear Admiral in 1907 and retired in 1908 . Biography . Clover was born in Hagerstown , Maryland , son of Lewis Peter Clover and Sarah Ann Ackerman Clover . His father was an artist who later became an Episcopal minister , serving congregations in Virginia , New Jersey , Illinois , and New York . Richardson Clover was appointed to the United States Naval Academy from Missouri in July 1863 and graduated in 1867 . His first posting was to the frigate " Susquehanna " . Clover had a varied career in the service including several hydrographic assignments . He served on the Coast Survey steamer on the Pacific coast 1874 - 77 , and had a brief assignment to the Naval Hydrographic Office . He was again assigned to the Coast Survey in 1881 , first in the Washington office and then commanding the schooner " Palinurus " surveying Long Island Sound . He supervised construction of the steamer and became her first commander . Under Clover , the " Patterson " sailed to California by way of the Straits of Magellan and subsequently made surveys in southeastern Alaska in 1885 , covering the north shore of Dixon Entrance ( except for Cordova Bay ) , and Clarence Strait as far north as Union Bay . He remained in charge of the " Patterson " and the Southeast Alaska survey until he was relieved by A . S Snow in March 1886 . Following a year ' s leave accompanying his marriage , Clover was posted to the torpedo station at Newport and then attended the Naval War College from September 1887 until January 1888 . Subsequently he was posted as Navigator on the , then as Executive officer on the from December 1888 to December 1889 . During this period " Dolphin " completed her round - the - world cruise . He returned to the Naval Hydrographic Office in 1889 . He became Acting Hydrographer in September 1890 and was formally appointed Hydrographer ( " i . e . " head of the office ) in May 1891 , accompanying his appointment as Lieutenant Commander . He was appointed one of the initial members , and secretary , of the Board on Geographic Names in 1890 . He continued as Hydrographer until 1893 . Clover served on the Phythian Board on the reorganization of the Navy . Subsequently he was posted to the cruiser , serving as Executive Officer under Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan , author of " The Influence of Sea Power upon History " . In December 1895 , he was appointed to the Board revising Naval Regulations . Subsequently he commanded the in 1896 - 7 . Clover was appointed Chief Intelligence Officer of the Office of Naval Intelligence from November 1897 to May 1898 and then again from October 1898 to February 1900 . While on his first term as Chief Intelligence Officer , then - Cmdr . Clover was also member of the War and Strategy Board established by the Secretary of the Navy John D . Long to provide him with operational and strategic advice . Also on that board was Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt . In the period leading up to the Spanish – American War , Clover organized intelligence - gathering efforts to establish the location , condition , and order of battle of the Spanish naval forces . These efforts included espionage as well as the more usual compilation of information from open and diplomatic channels . However , when the war started , Clover left his position to take an active combat position as commanding officer of the gunboat from May to September 1898 . After his stint on the " Bancroft " Clover resumed his duties as Chief Intelligence Officer until February 1900 , then was reassigned as the Naval Attaché at the U . S . Embassy in London from April 1900 to June 1903 He was promoted to captain on April 11 , 1902 . After a short hiatus at home he became the commanding officer of the battleship from January 1904 to December 1905 , while for most of this time also serving as Chief - of - Staff of the Asiatic Fleet . Then after a one - year hiatus he became a member , then the president of the Board of Inspection and Survey from February 1907 to July 1908 , during which he was promoted to rear admiral . He retired on July 11 , 1908 . Clover died on October 14 , 1919 , in Wyoming while en route from San Francisco , California to Washington , D . C . He is buried with his wife in Arlington National Cemetery . Personal life . Clover was married on 19 May 1886 to Mary Eudora Miller . She was the daughter of Senator John F . Miller from California , the wealthy former head of the Alaska Commercial Company . Clover named Dora Bay , Miller Lake , and Mt . Eudora in Alaska , presumably for her , in 1885 . The Clovers had two daughters , Beatrice Miller Clover and Mary Eudora Miller Clover . Beatrice married Thomas Holcomb , who served as Commandant of the United States Marine Corps during the early part of World War II . Namesakes . Clover Bay and Clover Passage in the Alexander Archipelago , Alaska , are named for him . Clover Deep , an undersea valley at 37N , 137 W off the coast of California , was named for him in 1895 . The name changed to Glover Deep as the result of a typographical error and neither name is in current use .