Herbert G . Hopwood Admiral Herbert Gladstone Hopwood ( November 23 , 1898 - September 15 , 1966 ) was a four - star admiral in the United States Navy who served as commander in chief of the United States Pacific Fleet from 1958 to 1960 . Early career . Born in Shamokin , Pennsylvania to Kendrick Hopwood and Anna Williams , he graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1919 . His first assignments were to the battleships and during the last months of World War I . Between the wars , he served aboard the transport in the Asiatic Station , the battleship , the destroyer , the fleet replenishment oiler , and the heavy cruiser . He commanded the destroyer from 1928 to 1929 , commanded the destroyer from 1938 to 1939 , and served as executive officer of the destroyer tender from 1939 to 1940 . Staff assignments included tours as an instructor in ordnance and gunnery at the Naval Academy ; as aide to the commandant of the Fourth Naval District ; and afloat as flag lieutenant on the staffs of Commander Destroyers , Battle Force and Commander Scouting Force . From the beginning of World War II to June 1944 , he served in the Bureau of Naval Personnel , with additional duty on the Joint Chiefs of Staff Planning Staff . As Director of Planning and Control in the Bureau of Naval Personnel , he implemented the program that dramatically expanded the Navy to meet wartime personnel requirements , and was promoted to captain . He went to sea as commanding officer of the light cruiser from August 14 , 1944 to early 1945 , participating in the capture of Peleliu , Anguar , and Ngesebus ; and the recapture of Corregidor and Mariveles . Flag officer . After the war , he returned to Washington D . C . for a series of staff assignments and promotion to rear admiral . He served successively as assistant chief of naval personnel ; as assistant chief of naval operations ; as budget director of the Navy from 1946 to 1950 , in which role he played a minor part in the Revolt of the Admirals when his testimony before a Congressional committee suggested that Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson had usurped the powers of Congress by unilaterally refusing to spend appropriated funds ; and as deputy comptroller of the Navy Department from 1950 to 1952 . He went to sea in command of Cruiser Division Three and Cruiser Destroyer Force , Pacific Fleet from 1952 to 1953 , and was assigned as chief of staff and aide to the Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet from 1953 to 1955 . He was promoted to vice admiral in 1955 and appointed commander of the First Fleet , then served as Deputy Chief of Naval Operations ( Logistics ) from 1957 to 1958 . On February 1 , 1958 , he was promoted to admiral and appointed commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet ( CINCPACFLT ) , a command that included about 400 ships , half a million men , and 3 , 000 aircraft . On August 23 , the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis erupted when People ' s Liberation Army forces began shelling Republic of China positions on the disputed islands of Quemoy and Matsu . Hopwood deployed the Seventh Fleet into the Taiwan Strait to help the Nationalist government protect Quemoy ' s supply lines , as directed by Admiral Harry D . Felt , Commander in Chief , Pacific ( CINCPAC ) . In January 1960 , Hopwood participated in the first public demonstration of a new Navy communications system that used the moon as a radio relay to exchange teletype messages between Hopwood in Hawaii and Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke in Washington , D . C . In June , he hosted President Dwight D . Eisenhower at Kaneohe Marine Corps Air Station when the President took a brief holiday in Hawaii following a trip to the Far East . He was relieved by Admiral John H . Sides on August 30 , 1960 and retired from the Navy on September 1 . Personal life . After retiring from the Navy , he worked as vice president in charge of operations for the Grace Steamship Company until 1964 . He married the former Jean Fulton and they lived in retirement in Short Hills , New Jersey . They had three children : son Herbert Gladstone Jr . , an officer in the Navy Medical Corps and later a prominent obstetrician in Arlington , Virginia ; son Kendrick Alexander ; and daughter Jean . He was awarded with Navy Distinguished Service Medal during Cold War and twice with the Legion of Merit for his World War II service , once as Director of Planning and Control in the Bureau of Naval Personnel and once as commanding officer of the light cruiser " Cleveland " . He is the namesake of Hopwood Junior High School in Saipan , originally the first institution of higher learning in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands , which was renamed in his honor in the late 1950s when he was Commanding Officer for the Northern Marianas as CINCPACFLT . He died at St . Barnabas Hospital in Livingston , New Jersey at the age of 67 , and is buried with his wife in Arlington National Cemetery . Decorations .