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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsWinthrop Murray CRANE
(1853-1920)
Senate Years of Service:
1904-1913Party: RepublicanCRANE, Winthrop Murray, a
Senator from Massachusetts; born in Dalton, Mass., April 23, 1853;
attended the public schools of Dalton, Wilbraham Academy,
Wilbraham, Mass., and Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass.;
engaged in the manufacture of paper at Dalton; lieutenant governor
of Massachusetts 1897-1899; Governor 1900-1902; appointed Secretary
of the Treasury by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1902, but
declined; appointed and subsequently elected as a Republican to the
United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
George F. Hoar; reelected in 1907 and served from October 12, 1904,
to March 3, 1913; declined to be a candidate for reelection in
1912; chairman, Committee on Canadian Relations (Fifty-ninth and
Sixtieth Congresses), Committee on Rules (Sixty-first and
Sixty-second Congresses); resumed his former business pursuits;
died in Dalton, Mass., October 2, 1920; interment in Dalton
Cemetery.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Griffin, Solomon B. W. Murray Crane, A Man and
Brother. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1926; Johnson,
Carolyn. Winthrop Murray Crane: A Study in Republican
Leadership, 1892-1920. Northampton, Mass.: Smith College,
1967.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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