J paul reason biography

Admiral J. Paul Reason

Joseph Paul Reason  was Commander in Chief, United States Atlantic Fleet from 1996 to 1999. Earlier in his career, as a commander, he was naval aide to the President of the United States, Jimmy Carter, from December 1976 to June 1979.

In 1996.

J paul reason biography

Vice Admiral J. Paul Reason made history when he became the first Black promoted to the rank of four-star admiral in the U.S. Navy. It took the Navy 135 years from the date the Union Navy began enlisting African Americans in 1861 to promote a black man to four-star admiral.

Joseph Paul Reason was born in Washington D.C.

on March 22, 1941. The son of Joseph Reason, a professor of romance languages and director of libraries at Howard University, and his wife, Bernice, a high school teacher of biology, Paul  participated in an integrated Boy Scout Troop and attended McKinley Technology High School.

In 1957-58, during his senior year in High School, Reason became interested in the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps, but