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William Stapleton

Journalist

Centurion, 1920–1925

Born 28 August 1847 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Died 27 August 1925 in Denver, Colorado

Proposed by George B. Hopkins and Ben Foster

Elected 6 November 1920 at age seventy-three

Century Memorial

The journalistic experience of William Stapleton covered half a century, almost evenly divided between the Milwaukee Sentinel and the Denver Republican; on each of which well-known Western newspapers he had been editor-in-chief.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1926 Century Association Yearbook