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note: The following information is taken from various sources and
put together with the help of Ron Reeves, Mark Donovan and others. As this page is built, information
on the Commanding Officer's will be added. Commanding Officer's biographies
can be accessed by clicking on the Commanding Officer's name.
A navy
is essentially and necessarily autocratic.... Whilst
the ships sent forth by the congress may and must fight
for the principles of human rights and republican freedom,
the ships themselves must be ruled and commanded at
sea under a system of absolute despotism.
John Paul Jones
Quoted
from : Buckner F. Melton, Jr., A Hanging Offense,
The Strange Affair of the Warship
Somers , Free Press, 2003, New York, NY
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Commanding
Officers Timeline
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In
Command |
Commanding
Officer |
Commissioning
Place / Date |
Retired
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17
November 1960
01
June 1962 |
Melvin
Earl Bustard, CDR |
February
21, 1942 |
CAPT |
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01
June 1962 |
Frank
H. Sonntag, CDR |
University
of California at Los Angeles, 1943 |
CAPT |
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January
1963 |
Thomas
E. Groves, CDR |
- |
- |
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July
1963
30
January 1965 |
Edward
Lull Cochrane, Jr., CDR |
US
Naval Academy, 1941 |
CAPT |
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30
January 1965
03
December 1966 |
Charles
P. Tesh, CDR |
V-12
Program, Midshipman School, University of Notre Dame,
9 July 1945 |
RADM |
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03
December 1966
03
August 1968 |
William
L. Read, CDR |
US
Naval Academy 1949 |
VADM |
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03
August 1968
23
May 1970 |
John
D. Scull, CDR |
University
of California at Los Angeles, 1951 |
CAPT |
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23
May 1970
23
October 1971 |
Dempster McKee Jackson, CDR |
US
Naval Academy 1952 |
RADM |
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23
October 1971
7
July 1973 |
Richard R. Tarbuck, CDR |
US
Naval Academy 1956 |
CAPT |
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7
July 1973
30
April 1974 |
Donald
Ralph Anderson, CDR |
Villinova,
PA NROTC 1959 |
CAPT |
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30
April 1974 |
USS
King Decommissioned for Anti-Air Warfare Modernization
Carlton
W. Canaday, LCDR (EO) OIC |
Boland
Marine & Mfg. Co.
New Orleans, LA |
LCDR |
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17
September 1977 |
CDR
W. H. Stillwell was originally selected to be the new
Commanding Officer of the USS King. After two months of
hospitalization from hepatitus, CDR Stillwell died on
17 September 1977. |
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17
September 1977
17
June 1979
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Grant
Alexander Sharp, CDR |
- |
RADM |
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17
June 1979
07
August 1981
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Hiram
Ward Clark, Jr., CDR |
US
Naval Academy 1964 |
ADM |
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07
August 1981
15
July 1983
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John
Scott Redd, CDR |
US
Naval Academy 1966 |
VADM |
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15
July 1983
19
July 1985
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Robert D. Pacek, CDR |
University
of Wisconsin 1965 |
CAPT |
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19
July 1985
26
June 1987
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Stephen
R. Woodall, CDR |
US
Naval Academy 1967 |
CAPT |
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26
June 1987
10
June 1989
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James
W. Moreland III, CDR |
Auburn
University 1969 |
CAPT |
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10
June 1989
28
March 1991
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Robert Edward Williams, Jr., CDR |
US
Naval Academy 1972 |
CAPT |
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28
March 1991 |
USS
King Decommssioned Norfolk, Virginia |
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15
April 1994 |
King
sold as scrap to J&L Metals, Wilmington, NC |
Amount
of Sale: $274,467.30 |
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