Winthrop Murray Crane was a U.S.

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 political figure. He served as the 40th Governor of Massachusetts

Governor of Massachusetts

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 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

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, owners of the privately held Crane Paper Company

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, sole suppliers of the paper for the Federal Reserve Notes, the currency of the United States

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In 1880 he married Mary Benner, who died in 1884 giving birth to their only child, Winthrop Murray Crane I].