President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Centurion, 1898–1915
Born 8 March 1839 in Boston, Massachusetts
Died 20 June 1917 in Ridgefield, Connecticut
Buried Church on the Hill Cemetery, Lenox, Massachusetts
Proposed by Edwin L. Godkin and Bache McEvers Emmet
Elected 5 February 1898 at age fifty-eight