Ships
- USS Monterey (CVL-26) Captain from 10 April 1944 · Relieved on 28 January 1945
Stuart Howe Ingersoll was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on 3 June 1898 and was appointed to the Naval Academy from Maine in July 1917. He belonged to the wartime Class of 1921, whose top 286 members, Ingersoll among them, finished in three years and graduated on 3 June 1920. As a midshipman he cruised in the battleship Missouri.
He began in the battleship North Dakota and the destroyers Cassin and Hopkins. Hopkins operated from Constantinople in the waters of the old Ottoman Empire. He later became a naval aviator, and in World War II he commanded the light carrier Monterey from April 1944 to January 1945 with the fast carrier forces.
After the war he held planning posts and unified-command leadership roles. He served as Commandant of Midshipmen at Annapolis and commanded the Seventh Fleet during the period of U.S. commitment to the defense of Taiwan. On 13 August 1957 he became the 31st President of the Naval War College. There he moved its war gaming from manual to computerized play, commissioning the Naval Electronic Warfare Simulator in 1958, and he sat on the Civil War Centennial Commission. His tour, which ended in 1960, brought him a second Distinguished Service Medal.
He married Josephine Springman, who died in 1964, and they had a son and two daughters. He later married Elinore Dorrance Hill. He died at the Naval Regional Medical Center in Newport, Rhode Island, on 29 January 1983.