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Samuel B. M. Young

Major-General, U.S. Army

Centurion, 1902–1909

Full Name Samuel Baldwin Marks Young

Born 9 January 1840 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Died 1 September 1924 in Helena, Montana

Buried Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia

Proposed by Theodore Roosevelt and Joseph R. Duryee

Elected 7 June 1902 at age sixty-two