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Jun 8, 2018 · PALMER, ALEXANDER MITCHELL. Alexander Mitchell Palmer served as U.S. attorney general from 1919 to 1921. Palmer, who also served as a congressman and federal judge, became a controversial figure for rounding up thousands of aliens in 1920 that he considered to be politically subversive.
Aug 10, 2023 · Alexander Mitchell Palmer (1872–1936), a lawyer, politician, and attorney general of the United States after World War I, is remembered for directing the notorious “Palmer raids,” a series of mass roundups and arrests by federal agents of radicals and political dissenters suspected of subversion.
Alexander Mitchell Palmer (1919–1921) Born to a Quaker family near White Haven, Pennsylvania, on May 4, 1872, A. Mitchell Palmer attended a Moravian parochial high school in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, graduating later from Swarthmore College in 1891. He began working as the official stenographer of the Forty-third Pennsylvania Judicial District ...
First Red Scare. Key People: A. Mitchell Palmer. Palmer Raids, raids conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice in 1919 and 1920 in an attempt to arrest foreign anarchists, communists, and radical leftists, many of whom were subsequently deported.
Oct 24, 2022 · 50th Attorney General, 1919 - 1921. Download Image. Alexander Mitchell Palmer was born in Moosehead, Pennsylvania, on May 4, 1872. In 1891 he received his A.B. degree from Swarthmore College and studied law at Swarthmore, Lafayette, and George Washington University.
Text. A. Mitchell Palmer, of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, born 1872; graduated at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, 1891, with the highest honors of his class; was admitted to the bar in 1893 and has been actively engaged in the practice of the law in Pennsylvania and other states ever since.
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer Makes “The Case against the Reds” The climate of repression established in the name of wartime security during World War I continued after the war as the U.S. government focused on communists, Bolsheviks, and “reds.”
