whose members include Massachusetts Governor John Crownshield (1649-1699) and Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Williams Crowninshield (1772-1851). Harvey Cushing (1869–1939), American neurosurgeon, pioneer of brain surgery who was the first exclusive neurosurgeon and the first person to describe Cushing's disease. Scion on the Cushing family whose notable members include American Founding Father Thomas Cushing III (1725–1788), William Cushing (1732–1810) nominated Court's Chief Justice by President George Washington and English theologian Thomas Cushing (1512–1588). Direct descendant of John Cotton (1585–1652), the great 16th century Puritan theologian Richard Henry Dana Jr. (1815–1882), lawyer and politician who gained renown as the author of the classic American memoir Two Years Before the Mast. Both as a writer and as a lawyer, he was a champion of the downtrodden, from seamen to fugitive slaves and freedmen. Descendant of Founding Father Francis Dana (1743–1811), and of French Huguenot Richard Dana (1620–1690) who arrived in Massachusetts during the later end of the Puritan migration to New England. Robert Williams Daniel, Jr. (1936–2012), member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Son of financier Robert Williams Daniel, descendant of William Randolph (prominent figure in the history and government of the English colony of Virginia) and Edmund Randolph (the seventh Governor of Virginia, the first Attorney General of the United States and later served as Secretary of State). Michel David-Weill, French investment banker and former Chairman of Lazard Frères, art collector. Great-great-grandson of Alexandre Weill, co-founder of Lazard Frères Henry A. Dudley (1913–1995), U.S. Ambassador. Member of the ancient prominent Dudley family, whose members include Lord Henry Dudley (1517–1568), Thomas Dudley (1576–1653) Founder and Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and a founder of Harvard University, and Joseph Dudley (1647–1720) Colonial Administrator of the Dominion of New England Angier Biddle Duke (1915–1995), youngest American Ambassador in history and Chief of Protocol of the United States. Heir of the Duke Family business empire in tobacco and electric power, and major benefactor of Duke University, named after his family (one of the First Families of Virginia). Also a scion of the prominent Biddle family, and a great-great-grandson of financier Anthony Joseph Drexel who founded with J. P. Morgan the bank Drexel, Morgan & Co. (later J.P. Morgan & Co.) Viscount David Eccles (1904–1999), member of the House of Lords and prominent British politician who served as Minister of Education, Minister of Works, and as President of the Board of Trade T. S.