President Winthrop

President Winthrop

President Winthrop is a fictional president of the United States of America in Robert W. Chambers' collection of short stories, "The King in Yellow". His administration is mentioned in the story "The Repairer of Reputations" as having ended in 1920. The story itself was first published in 1895. Winthrop's administration saw the repeal of laws prohibiting suicide, "which bore its final fruit in the month of April, 1920, when the first Government Lethal Chamber was opened on Washington Square". [Chambers, "The Repairer of Reputations", "The King in Yellow" (Buccaneer Books 1976 p. 9).]

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