Winthrop M. Crane
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Winthrop Murray Crane (April 23, 1853 – 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.
Crane 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.
He was escorting President Theodore Roosevelt in Pittsfield, Massachusetts at the time of the accident in 1902 that injured the president and killed the president's Secret Service agent, William Craig.
| Preceded by: Roger Wolcott | Governor of Massachusetts 1900-1903 | Succeeded by: John L. Bates |