Beekman Winthrop was an American lawyer, government official and banker. He served as Governor of Puerto Rico from 1904 to 1907, as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in 19071909, and Assistant Secretary of the Navy in 19091913.
The son of Robert Winthrop and Kate Wilson Taylor, Beekman Beek Winthrop came from a family of wealth and influence in New York. He was born in Orange, New Jersey and attended Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1897 and a LL.B degree from Harvard Law School in 1900, graduating second in his class.
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