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Frederic A. Delano

President, Wabash Railroad

Centurion, 1913–1946

Full Name Frederic Adrian Delano

Born 10 September 1863 in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Died 28 March 1953 in Washington, District of Columbia

Buried Riverside Cemetery, Fairhaven, Massachusetts

Proposed by Henry S. Pritchett and William K. Draper

Elected 1 November 1913 at age fifty

Archivist’s Note: Nephew of Edward Delano and Franklin H. Delano; brother-in-law of James Roosevelt; uncle of Franklin D. Roosevelt