 Naval Academy, he was commissioned ensign by special act of Congress for his heroism during the 1889 Apia cyclone.He served as commander in chief of the Battle Fleet in 1926 and lived to be 105 years old.He was born on a plantation near Tuscumbia, Alabama, the youngest of seven children of George Moore Jackson and Sarah Cabell Perkins, and was appointed by Alabama Congressman Joseph Wheeler to the U.S.