Moorfield Storey (March 19, 1845 - October 24, 1929) was an American lawyer, publicist, and civil rights leader. According to Storey's biographer, William B. Hixson, Jr., he had a worldview that embodied "pacifism, anti-imperialism, and racial egalitarianism fully as much as it did laissez-faire and moral tone in government"
His family was descended from the earliest Puritan settlers and had close connections with the abolitionist movement. He wa...
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Moorfield Storey (March 19, 1845 - October 24, 1929) was an American lawyer, publicist, and civil rights leader. According to Storey's biographer, William B. Hixson, Jr., he had a worldview that embodied "pacifism, anti-imperialism, and racial egalitarianism fully as much as it did laissez-faire and moral tone in government"
His family was descended from the earliest Puritan settlers and had close connections with the abolitionist movement. He was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, and arrived in Northeast Harbor after the Civil War, building a house there. He graduated at Harvard in 1866, studied at Harvard Law School, and in 1869 was admitted to the bar. In 1887 he built a house on Great Cranberry Island.
In 1867-69 he was private secretary to Senator Charles Sumner. During his tenure, he initially supported the removal of President Andrew Johnson from office but soon became disgusted by the corruption and opportunism of politicians on both sides. He began the practice of his...
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