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James M. Crafts

President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Centurion, 1898–1915

Full Name James Mason Crafts

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