A. Mitchell Palmer
Born in Pennsylvania in 1872, Alexander Mitchell Palmer served as a congressmen who was known for progressive views on civil rights and women’s rights. But his outlook changed when he became President Woodrow Wilson’s Attorney General in 1919. The bombing of his Washington DC home (in which the bomber perished) may have been a factor in turning him against socialists and immigrants. With the help of J. Edgar Hoover, he launched raids in 1919 and 1920 to round up and deport people he saw as dangerous “radicals” during the period known as the first Red Scare. In 1920 he made an unsuccessful attempt to become the Democratic Party’s candidate for president. In his later years he left politics, and worked in the private practice of law.
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Born in Pennsylvania in 1872, Alexander Mitchell Palmer served as a congressmen who was known for progressive views on civil rights and women’s rights. But his outlook changed when he became President Woodrow Wilson’s Attorney General in 1919. The bombing of his Washington DC home (in which the bomber perished) may have been a factor in turning him against socialists and immigrants. With the help of J. Edgar Hoover, he launched raids in 1919 and 1920 to round up and deport people he saw as dangerous “radicals” during the period known as the first Red Scare. In 1920 he made an unsuccessful attempt to become the Democratic Party’s candidate for president. In his later years he left politics, and worked in the private practice of law.
>> Learn more: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USApalmerA.htm