Editing Eben Sumner Draper (section)

{{Short description|American politician}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
|name=Eben Sumner Draper
|image=Ebenezer Sumner Draper crop.jpg
|caption=Photo c. 1914
|order=44th
|office= Governor of Massachusetts
|term_start= January 7, 1909
|term_end= January 5, 1911
|lieutenant= [[Louis A. Frothingham]]
|predecessor= [[Curtis Guild Jr.]]
|successor= [[Eugene Foss]]
|birth_date= {{birth date|1858|6|17|mf=y}}
|birth_place=[[Hopedale, Massachusetts]]
|death_date= {{death date and age|1914|4|9|1858|7|17|mf=y}}
|death_place=[[Greenville, South Carolina]]
|party= [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
|order2 = 40th [[Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts]]
|term_start2 = January 4, 1906
|term_end2 = January 7, 1909
|governor2 = Curtis Guild Jr.
|predecessor2 = [[Curtis Guild Jr.]]
|successor2 = [[Louis A. Frothingham]]
|order3 = Chairperson of the [[Massachusetts Republican Party]]
|term_start3 = 1896
|term_end3 = 1897
|predecessor3 = [[George H. Lyman]]
|successor3 = A. H. Goetting
|term_start4 = 1892
|term_end4 = 1893
|predecessor4 = Joseph Burdett
|successor4 = [[Samuel Winslow]]
|spouse = Nannie Bristow
|children = 3
|signature = Signature of Eben Sumner Draper.png
}}

'''Eben''' (sometimes incorrectly '''Ebenezer''') '''Sumner Draper''' (June 17, 1858&nbsp;– April 9, 1914) was an [[United States of America|American]] businessman and politician from [[Massachusetts]].  He was for many years a leading figure in what later became the [[Draper Corporation]], the dominant manufacturer of cotton textile process machinery in the world during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.  He served as the 44th [[governor of Massachusetts]] from 1909 to 1911.