William Crowninshield Endicott

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William Crowninshield Endicott

William Crowninshield Endicott (born November 19, 1826 in Salem , Massachusetts , † May 6, 1900 in Boston , Massachusetts) was an American politician and Secretary of War under President Grover Cleveland .

Life

William Crowninshield Endicott, son of William P. and Mary (Putnam) Endicott, was born in Salem. He received his doctorate from Harvard University in 1847 , attended Harvard Law School from 1849 to 1850 and worked at a court in Massachusetts from 1850.

On December 13, 1859, he married in Salem Ellen Peabody, the daughter of George and Clarissa (Endicott) Peabody. Her grandfather, Joseph Peabody († 1844), was a respected shipowner in Salem who had made a fortune importing pepper from Sumatra . William and Ellen had two children.

After running unsuccessfully as a Democrat for Congress in 1879 , Endicott served on the Massachusetts Supreme Court until 1882 . He then ran for election as governor in 1884 and failed. He was subsequently appointed Minister of War. In this position he served under Grover Cleveland between 1885 and 1889. Endicott oversaw many important changes in the organization of the United States Army , including the establishment of a system to control officer promotion.

William Endicott also introduced the Endicott Board for Fortifications, designed to improve the models for the formation of American coastal defenses during the Spanish-American War .

William Crowninshield Endicott died on May 6, 1900 in Boston. He was buried with his wife in the Endicott Lot in Harmony Grove Cemetery in Salem.

family

His daughter, Mary Crowninshield Endicott, married the British politician Joseph Chamberlain first in 1888 and later the Anglican clergyman William Hartley Carnegie in 1916.

He was a direct descendant of Governor John Endecott and a distant relative of Governor Endicott Peabody .

literature

  • Walter Muir Whitehill, Captain Joseph Peabody: East India Merchant of Salem (1757-1844) . Peabody Museum, Salem 1962, p. 179.

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personal data
SURNAME Endicott, William Crowninshield
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Salem , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1900
Place of death Boston , Massachusetts