Winthrop Murray Crane (April 23, 1853 – October 2, 1920) was a U.S. political figure. He served as the 40th Governor of Massachusetts between 1900 and 1903.He was a Republican.
Appointed October 12, 1904 by Governor John L. Bates to continue the U.S. Senate term of the late George F. Hoar. He was then elected in January 18, 1905 to finish the term. Re-elected in 1907, and served until 1913.
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 I. In 1906, Crane married Josephine Porter Boardman, 20 years his junior, from a politically well-connected family. 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.
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