Marcellus Boss

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Marcellus Boss

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|office = Governor of Guam
{{small|Interim}}

|term_start = November 14, 1959

|term_end = August 22, 1960

|lieutenant =

|predecessor = Richard Barrett Lowe

|successor = Joseph F. Flores

|order2 =

|office2 = Secretary of Guam

|term_start2 = November 1, 1957

|term_end2 = 1959

|governor2 = Richard Barrett Lowe

|predecessor2 = William Corbett

|successor2 = A. M. Edwards

|office3 = Member of the Kansas State Senate

|term_start3 = 1945

|term_end3 = 1949

|birth_name = Marcellus Graeme Boss

|birth_date = {{birth date|1901|1|24}}

|birth_place = Plymouth, Indiana

|death_date = {{death date and age|1967|3|21|1901|1|24}}

|death_place = Kansas, United States

|nationality = {{flag|United States}}

|party = Republican

|signature = Marcellus Boss signature.jpg

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Marcellus Graeme Boss (January 24, 1901 – March 21, 1967) was an interim Governor of Guam from November 14, 1959, until his resignation on August 22, 1960.{{cite book|title=Britannica Book of the Year|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.|location=Chicago|date=1961}}

Boss first entered Guamanian administration with a 1957 appointment by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to the post of Secretary of Guam.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/10/30/archives/president-names-guam-aide.html|title=President Names Guam Aid|date=30 October 1957|work=The New York Times|pages=20|accessdate=1 October 2009}} He also served as a Republican member of the Kansas State Senate{{Cite web |url=http://www.kslib.info/legislators/membb3.html |title=Kansas Legislators Past and Present |access-date=2011-07-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725013407/http://www.kslib.info/legislators/membb3.html |archive-date=2011-07-25 |url-status=dead }} prior to becoming involved in the government of Guam. He was city clerk and city attorney of Kiowa, Kansas,{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=sq4MAAAAIBAJ&sjid=q2MDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3781,1110737&dq=marcellus+boss|title=District Masonic Meet at Hazelton|date=1 October 1947|work=The Kiowa News|accessdate=1 October 2009}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}} and had a thirty-year law career in Columbus, Kansas.{{cite book|last=Gingrich|first=Arnold|author-link=Arnold Gingrich|title=Coronet, Volume 41|publisher=David A. Smart|date=1957|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NaZJAAAAMAAJ&q=marcellus+boss}} He died of a heart attack on March 21, 1967, and was buried at the City Cemetery in Columbus, Kansas.