John Haskell Kemble (June 17, 1912 – February 19, 1990) was a professor of history at Pomona College and an influential American maritime historian.
[1] During World War II, he served in the United States Navy from 1941 to 1946, rising to the rank of lieutenant commander in the Naval Reserve.
Kemble was a Rockefeller Fellow, 1947–48; Visiting lecturer in history at the University of California, Los Angeles, 1948–49.
In 1952–53, he held the academic post at the Naval War College, which the following year was named the Ernest J.
A founding member of the North American Society for Oceanic History, he served as a vice president from 1975 to 1990.