Eight days before Christmas 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Captain Daniel J. Callaghan, his naval aide, to suggest names for a number of authorized ships that included destroyer tenders. On 21 December the Bureau of Navigation provided the chief executive with candidates for his consideration, including one that honored the “valley and its environs in east-central California” that encompassed the western slope of the Sierra Nevada.

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