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Actually the first Full Admiral (a 4-star rank) is Admiral David Farragut, 25 July 1866. Ernest King was the 55th Admiral when he became a full admiral.
King was also not the first 5-star Admiral either, but the third 5-star Admiral:
- George Dewey - March 2, 1899 (also the only Admiral to reach 6-Star Admiral of the Navy, on March 24, 1903, retroactive; but only temprarily until a reversion to being the senior 5-star)
- William D. Leahy - December 15, 1944,
- Ernest J. King December 17, 1944,
- Chester W. Nimitz - December 19, 1944,
- William F. "Bull" Halsey - December 11, 1945.
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