President Winthrop
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President Winthrop is a fictional president of the United States of America in Robert W. Chambers
' collection of short stories, The King in Yellow
. His administration is mentioned in the story The Repairer of Reputations
as having ended in 1920. The story itself was first published in 1895. Winthrop's administration saw the repeal of laws prohibiting suicide, "which bore its final fruit in the month of April, 1920, when the first Government Lethal Chamber was opened on Washington Square".
Robert W. Chambers
Robert William Chambers was an American artist and writer.-Biography:He was born in Brooklyn, New York, to William P. Chambers , a famous lawyer, and Caroline Chambers , a direct descendant of Roger Williams, the founder of Providence, Rhode Island...
' collection of short stories, The King in Yellow
The King in Yellow
The King in Yellow is a collection of short stories written by Robert W. Chambers and published in 1895. The stories could be categorized as early horror fiction or Victorian Gothic fiction, but the work also touches on mythology, fantasy, mystery, science fiction and romance...
. His administration is mentioned in the story The Repairer of Reputations
The Repairer of Reputations
The Repairer of Reputations is a short story published by Robert W. Chambers in the collection The King in Yellow in 1895. The story is an example of Chambers' horror fiction, and is one of the stories in the collection which contains the motif of the Yellow Sign and the King in Yellow.-Plot:The...
as having ended in 1920. The story itself was first published in 1895. Winthrop's administration saw the repeal of laws prohibiting suicide, "which bore its final fruit in the month of April, 1920, when the first Government Lethal Chamber was opened on Washington Square".