Eugene P. Wilkinson Biography

Vice Admiral Eugene Parks "Dennis" Wilkinson, U.S. Navy (August 10, 1918 – July 11, 2013) was selected for three historic command assignments. The first, in 1954, was as the first Commanding Officer of the USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear submarine. The second was as the first Commanding Officer of the USS Long Beach, America's first nuclear surface ship. The third was in 1980 when he was chosen as the first President and CEO of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO) from which he retired in 1984.