Background
Hough, Henry Hughes was born on January 8, 1871 in Saint Pierre, Miquelon (island near Newfoundland). Son of Charles Thacher and Sarah (Hughes) Hough.
Hough, Henry Hughes was born on January 8, 1871 in Saint Pierre, Miquelon (island near Newfoundland). Son of Charles Thacher and Sarah (Hughes) Hough.
Hough graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1891.
In 1923 he was the director of the Office of Naval Intelligence. He headed the Yangtze Patrol from 1925 to 1927. He served on board the torpedo boat Morris during the Spanish–American War.
Following the war, he alternated assignments in the Naval Intelligence office with ship-board duties.
In 1911, he was made the Navy attache to France and, later, to Russia. From 1914 to 1915, he was given his first command: the gunboat Wilmington, assigned to the Naval Academy.
In 1918, he was made a district commander in Brest, France. He was subsequently also a commissioner of the Prisoner of War Conference in Berne, Switzerland.
From 1919 to 1921, he commanded the battleship Utah, and from 1921 to 1922, the New New York
In 1922, while still a Captain, he was appointed as the Governor of the United States Virgin Islands, a role that he only acted in for a year. Hough was the first non-acting military governor to govern as a Captain, rather than a Rear Admiral, and the first not to be born in the United States. In 1923, he was appointed as Director of Naval Intelligence.
The following year, he was promoted to Rear Admiral on June 14, 1924.
From 1925 to 1926, he commanded the Yangtze Patrol. He retired from the Navy in 1935 and died in 1943.
Hough is buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
Served on Morris, Spanish-American War, 1898, Cleveland, 1903-1906. Member General Board, 1928-1930. Clubs: Army and Navy, Chevy Chase (Washington).
Married Flaurence Oliphant Ward, April.