Winthrop M. Crane

Infobox Governor
name=Winthrop Murray Crane


imagesize=176px
order=40th
office=Governor of Massachusetts
term_start=January 4, 1900
term_end=January 8, 1903
lieutenant=John L. Bates
predecessor=Roger Wolcott
successor=John L. Bates
birth_date=birth date|1853|4|23|mf=y
birth_place=
death_date=death date|1920|10|2|mf=y
death_place=
party=Republican
spouse=Mary Benner 1880-1884
Josephine Porter Boardman (1884-1920)
profession=
religion=
order2=United States Senator
from Massachusetts
term_start2=October 12, 1904
term_end2=March 3, 1913
predecessor2=George F. Hoar
successor2=John W. Weeks
order3 = 37th Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
term_start3 = 1897
term_end3 = 1900
governor3 = Roger Wolcott
predecessor3 = Roger Wolcott
successor3 = John L. Bates

Winthrop Murray Crane (April 23, 1853ndash October 2, 1920) was a U.S. political figure. He served as governor of Massachusetts between 1900 and 1903. He also served as a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1904 until 1913. He was a Republican.

Son of Zenas Marshall Crane and Louise Fanny Laflin, Winthrop was a leading member of the Crane family of Dalton, Massachusetts, owners of the privately held Crane Paper Company, sole suppliers of the paper for the Federal Reserve Notes, the currency of the United States.

In 1880, he married Mary Benner, who died in 1884 giving birth to their only child, Winthrop Murray Crane II. In 1906, Crane married Josephine Porter Boardman and they had three children: Stephen, Bruce, and poet Louise Crane.

He was hosting President Theodore Roosevelt in Pittsfield, Massachusetts on September 3, 1902 when a speeding trolley car rammed into the open-air horse carriage carrying Roosevelt. The accident killed the president's Secret Service agent, William Craig.

External links

*CongBio|C000875
* [http://www.mass.gov/statehouse/massgovs/wcrane.htm Official Commonwealth of Massachusetts Governor Biography]
* [http://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fap045 Massachusetts Historical Society Biography and Photograph Collection]