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Winthrop, Thomas Lindall

merchant, state senator, was born March 6, 1760, in New London, Conn. He was successively a state senator, lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts in 1826-32, and a presidential elector. He died Feb. 22, 1841, in Boston, Mass.

WINTHROP, WILLIAM WOOLSEY, soldier, author, was born Aug. 3, 1831, in New Haven, Conn. He was a United States army officer, professor of law at West Point; and the author of Treatise on Military Law; and Digest of Opinions of the Judge Advocate-General of the Army.

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