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Earliest Members of the Century Association

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Alfred Thayer Mahan

U.S. Navy

Centurion, 1896–1909

Born 27 September 1840 in West Point, New York

Died 1 December 1914 in Washington, District of Columbia

Buried Quogue Cemetery, Quogue, New York

Proposed by Loyall Farragut, James Waldemar Hayward, and Theodore Roosevelt

Elected 6 June 1896 at age fifty-five