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Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale, USN, Ret (1979-1980)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Admiral Stockdale was born in Abingdon, Illinois in 1923. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1946.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After graduation, he served for twenty years successively as carrier aviator, landing signal officer, test and fighter pilot, aircraft squadron commander, and air wing commander.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was shot down in Vietnam and held prisoner of war for seven and a half years. After his release in 1973, he received the Medal of Honor and became Commander of the Anti-Submarine Warfare Wing of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. In 1977, he accepted the presidency of the Naval War College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After retirement from the Navy in 1979, Admiral Stockdale became the President of ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ. He resigned in 1980 to join the Hoover Institute at Stanford University in California.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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