Question: The USS "Elrod" was named after a captain born in what state?

Context articles: Frederick Chamier
Jonas Pleškys
Robert H. Elrod
Henry T. Elrod
Henry Minett
Battle of Wassaw Sound
USS Elrod (FFG-55)
William Lee (captain)
1940 Mississippi State Maroons football team
William Smith (mariner)

Frederick Chamier (1796 – 29 October 1870) was an English novelist, autobiographer and naval captain born in London.
 He was author of several nautical novels that remained popular through the 19th century.
Jonas Plaskus or Jonas Pleškys (10 March 1935 in Giliogiris, Lithuania – 14 April 1993) was a Soviet Navy submarine tender captain born in Lithuania.
 He died in California, United States.
Robert H. "Bob" Elrod (born March 15, 1926) is an American former politician in the state of Florida.
Elrod was born on September 27, 1905, in Turner County, Georgia.
 He enlisted in the Marine Corps in December 1927, and was appointed a Marine second lieutenant in February 1931.
 He attended the University of Georgia and Yale University prior to his entry into the Marine Corps.
Henry Minett was born in Louisville, Kentucky and entered the United States Naval Academy shortly after his 16th birthday, on June 8, 1872.
 He graduated as a midshipman four years later, on June 20, 1876.
 In his early naval career, he was assigned first to the USS "Swatara", sailing as part of the North Atlantic Squadron.
 After being promoted to ensign, he was reassigned to the USS "Jamestown" from 1879 to 1881.
 The "Jamestown" served as the guard ship for the port of Sitka, Alaska.
 Although he was only an ensign, a small islet in Sitka harbor, Minett Islet, was named for him.
 On his return from Alaska, Minett was assigned to the training ship USS "New Hampshire" in 1882.
 In the next several years, Minett also served on board the USS "Hartford" and the USS "Lackawanna", before being assigned to the research-oriented Naval Torpedo Station at Newport, Rhode Island and sailed with the USS "Marblehead" for several years around Europe before returning to the United States in 1897.
 He served on board the USS "Wabash", a receiving ship in Boston Harbor until 1898.
The Battle of Wassaw Sound (or the Capture of the CSS "Atlanta") was an American Civil War naval battle between the Confederate ram CSS "Atlanta" and the "Passaic"-class ironclad monitors USS "Weehawken" and USS "Nahant" and the gunboat USS "Cimmerone" (later named "Cimmaron"), which took place on 17 June 1863 in Wassaw Sound, a bay in the present day state of Georgia.
 "Atlanta" ran aground while attempting to break the Union blockade, and after a short battle surrendered to the Union forces.
 Captain Rodgers became a national hero, and he was promoted to Commodore and received the Thanks of Congress as a result of his decisive victory.
USS "Elrod" (FFG-55), an "Oliver Hazard Perry"-class frigate, is a ship of the United States Navy named after Captain Henry T. Elrod (1905–1941), a Marine aviator who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism in the defense of Wake Island in World War II.
William Lee was a ship's captain born in Austerfield, Yorkshire, England.
The 1940 Mississippi State Maroons football team represented Mississippi State College during the 1940 college football season.
 This was Mississippi State's only undefeated season.
 End Buddy Elrod would be named SEC "Player of the Year" by the Nashville Banner and be selected to several All America teams.
William Smith (c. 1790–1847) was the English captain born in Blyth, Northumberland, who discovered the South Shetland Islands, an archipelago off the Graham Land in Antarctica.
 His discovery was the first ever made south of 60° south latitude, in the present Antarctic Treaty area.