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William Waldorf Astor

Lawyer/Publisher

Centurion, 1887–1896

Born 31 March 1848 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Died 18 October 1919 in Brighton, Sussex, England

Buried Cliveden Chapel, Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England

Proposed by Clarence A. Seward and Fordyce Barker

Elected 19 March 1887 at age thirty-eight

Archivist’s Note: Son of John Jacob Astor III; nephew of John Carey Jr. and Franklin H. Delano