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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsWilliam Franklin DRAPER
(1842-1910)
DRAPER, William Franklin,
a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Lowell, Mass., April
9, 1842; attended public, private, and high schools; studied
mechanical engineering and cotton manufacturing; enlisted as a
private in the Twenty-fifth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer
Infantry, on September 9, 1861; promoted through the ranks to
lieutenant colonel; brevetted colonel and brigadier general of
Volunteers; became a manufacturer of cotton machinery at Hopedale,
Worcester County, and patented many improvements; delegate to the
Republican National Convention in 1876; colonel on the staff of
Governor Long from 1880 to 1883; elected as a Republican to the
Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3,
1897); chairman, Committee on Patents (Fifty-fourth Congress); was
not a candidate for renomination in 1896; president of the Draper
Co. upon its incorporation in 1896; Ambassador and Minister
Plenipotentiary to Italy 1897-1899; died in Washington, D.C., on
January 28, 1910; interment in Village Cemetery, Hopedale,
Mass.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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