Education
Naval War College.
Naval War College.
Powell was born 3 August 1883 in McAfee, Kentucky, and graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1904. During the next years he served on such famous battleships as United States Ship Kearsarge, United States Ship Illinois, and United States Ship Tennessee and studied at the Naval War College, rising to the rank of captain in 1926. Captain Powell was aide to the Secretary of the Navy in 1926 and Naval Attaché at Peking, 1927-1929.
After commanding United States Ship Pittsburgh he returned to Washington, District of Columbia, where he died 24 December 1936.
He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia. The destroyer United States Ship Halsey Powell was named in his honor.
