George Stephen Morrison

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George Stephen Morrison (born 1920) is the father of The Doors' late lead singer Jim Morrison, and is also notable for being the youngest admiral in the US Navy until 1963.

Also known as Steve, he was born in Georgia to Caroline and Paul Raymund Morrison.^[1] Morrison was raised in Leesburg, Florida. Morrison entered the U.S. Naval Academy in 1938. He served in World War II.

Morrison, from his flagship, the Essex-class carrier Bon Homme Richard, was in command of the local fleet during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident in 1964.

He was Commander, Naval Forces, Marianas in 1972. [1]

Admiral George Morrison was the keynote speaker at the decommissioning ceremony for Bon Homme Richard, his first ship as an admiral, on July 3, 1971 in Washington D.C., USA (just 12 hours after his son Jim Morrison's death).

He currently resides in Coronado, California.