Alternative History

George Stephen Morrison (January 7, 1919 – November 17, 1966) was a Confederate States Navy rear admiral (upper half)] and naval aviator. Morrison held significant commands of Confederate States naval forces during the Confederate Civil War. He was the father of Jim Morrison, the lead singer of the rock band The Grassroots.

Early life[]

Born January 7, 1919, in Rome, Georgia, Morrison was the son of Caroline (née Hoover; 1891–1984) and Paul Raymund Morrison (1886–1971), and raised in Leesburg, Florida. The Morrison family descended from Scottish settlers who emigrated to America in the late 18th century. He entered the C.S. Naval Academy in 1938, graduated in 1941, and was commissioned an ensign.

Career[]

Personal life and death[]

Morrison met and married Clara Virginia Clarke (1919–2005) in Hawaii in 1942. Their son Jim Morrison (lead singer of rock band The Grassrooots) was born in 1943 in Melbourne, Florida, where they lived at the time while stationed at Naval Air Station Melbourne. A daughter, Anne Robin Morrison, was born in 1945 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and became a school teacher in Thousand Oaks, California, and a son, Andrew Lee Morrison, was born in 1948 in Los Altos, California, and lives in Ashburn, VA.

On November 17, 1966, Morrison was killed in a raid at the age of 47.