Frank B. Upham

Frank B. Upham

Infobox Military Person
name=Frank B. Upham
lived= birth date|1872|9|7 – death date and age|1939|9|15|1872|9|7


caption=Admiral Frank B. Upham as a Captain commanding the USS Pueblo
nickname=
placeofbirth= Fort Apache, Arizona
placeofdeath= San Francisco, California
allegiance= United States of America
branch= United States Navy
serviceyears=1893-1936
rank= Admiral
unit=
commands=USS Columbia USS Pueblo USS Tennessee Battleship Division 3 Chief, Bureau of Navigation Asiatic Fleet
battles= Spanish American War World War I
awards= Navy Cross
relations=
laterwork=

Frank Brooks Upham (7 September 1872 - 15 September 1939) was an admiral in the United States Navy during the Spanish American War and World War I.

Born at Fort Apache, Arizona, Upham was appointed to the United States Naval Academy on 6 September 1889 and graduated on 2 June 1893. Following the completion of the two required years of postgraduate sea duty—which he served with the Pacific Squadron in protected cruiser "Philadelphia" — Upham was commissioned an ensign on 1 July 1895 and joined "Olympia" (Cruiser No. 6) on 18 July before she sailed for the Far East to become the flagship of the Asiatic Squadron. At the time of the Spanish-American War, Upham was on the staff of the Commander in Chief, Asiatic Squadron, Commodore George Dewey; and the young officer received his baptism of fire during the Battle of Manila Bay.

He advanced up the officer ranks of the Navy, eventually attaining flag rank in 1927. During the years before World War I, Upham's sea duty embraced tours in "Oregon" (Battleship No. 3), "New Jersey" (Battleship No. 16), and "South Dakota" (Armored Cruiser No. 9) ; he also commanded "Olympia" and the yacht "Scorpion". He served tours of duty ashore at Newport, Rhode Island, at the Naval War College and in Washington at the Bureau of Ordnance. His overseas shore duty began in the summer of 1911 when he took up the duties of Assistant Naval Attache at Tokyo and Peking, shortly before the outbreak of the Chinese Revolution in October of that year.

During World War I, Upham commanded "Columbia" (Cruiser No. 12) and "Pueblo" (Armored Cruiser No. 7) and earned the Navy Cross for leading the latter during the "difficult, exacting, and hazardous" convoy escort missions across the Atlantic.

In the years following the armistice, Capt. Upham was Chief of Staff to the Commander, Battleship Force, Atlantic Fleet—Rear Admiral Hilary P. Jones—before serving successive tours of shore duty: in Paris as naval attache and in Washington assigned to the Office of Naval Intelligence. He commanded "Tennessee" (BB-43) from September 1924 to March 1926 and subsequently filled the billet of commandant of the naval air station at Pensacola, Florida. He capitalized on this assignment to earn his naval aviation observer's wings. Reaching flag rank in June 1927, Upham successively commanded Battleship Division 3 and Submarine Divisions, Control Force, and served as Chief of the Bureau of Navigation.

Given the temporary rank of admiral on 18 August 1933, Upham returned to the Far East as Commander in Chief, Asiatic Fleet, and broke his flag in cruiser "Augusta" (CA-31) commanded by Capt. (later Fleet Admiral) Chester W. Nimitz. Relieved by Admiral Orin G. Murfin in October 1935, Upham returned to the United States to serve as chairman of the General Board from 20 December 1935 to 30 September 1936.

Placed on the retired list on 1 October 1936, Rear Admiral Upham died in San Francisco, California.

Namesake

The destroyer escort USS "Upham" (DE-283) was named for him.

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