Actually, it's not a bad idea.
Think how much mileage that the Navy has extracted from its ability to name warships after otherwise totally obscure sister-marrying Southern politicians who managed to superglue their rear ends into the right committees and voted the Navy line all their lives....
"Carl Vinson had never seen a battleship until he achieved prominence in the Congress... Only once in his entire lifetime did he set foot outside the United States, and that was when he went on an inspection trip of the Panama Canal Zone in the early 1920's... By his colleagues in the House he was known as the "Swamp Fox" [and no doubt a few other things too - Ed.]because of his masterful grasp of parliamentary procedure and virtual unerring strategy in getting important legislation through Congress."
... and that's from a site being NICE about the guy.