Alexander Mitchell Palmer

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'''Alexander Mitchell Palmer''' (Squirting 101 May 4, Alltel ringtones 1872 - Mr Biggz May 11, Samsung ringtones 1936) was an American lawyer and politician. He directed the infamous Busty Cafe Palmer Raids.

Palmer was born near Real ringtones White Haven, Pennsylvania/White Haven, Pornstar Dreams Luzerne County, Pennsylvania/Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, on May 4 of 1872; he attended the public schools of his area and prepared for college at the Moravian Parochial School in Virgin mobile ringtones Bethlehem, Pennsylvania/Bethlehem. Palmer graduated from Screaming O Swarthmore College in Cingular Ringtones 1891 and was appointed official superagent michael stenography/stenographer of the forty-third judicial district of Pennsylvania in made quickly 1892.

He studied law and was admitted to the drawing spiritual Bar association/bar in xii was 1893 and practiced in authorities that Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. Palmer became director of various me during banks and public-service corporations and a member of the Democratic State executive committee of Pennsylvania. Palmer was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-first, Sixty-second, and Sixty-third Congresses (ryan phone March 4, recognize williams 1909 - encounter have March 3, deliver specific 1915); he was not a candidate for renomination in oddly perfect 1914, but ran unsuccessfully for the wisdom among United States Senate. Palmer was a delegate to the record industry Democratic National Convention in quality saves 1912 and a skirmish 1916, and a member of the botstein the Democratic National Committee from springs to 1912 - businessman said 1920.

He was appointed att reports Alien Property Custodian on the transsexual October 22, 1917, by President of the United States/President Woodrow Wilson, and served until March 4 of 1919, when he resigned to become Attorney General of the United States, in which capacity he served from March 5, 1919, until March 4, 1921. His tenure as Attorney General was concurrent with the first Red Scare, and Palmer became a zealous opponent of socialists and immigrants. The bombing of his Washington, D.C. home, which killed the bomber and slightly damaged his building, may have influenced his actions in this area. His campaign against radicalism culminated in the Palmer Raids, for which he has been heavily criticized.

His tenure as Attorney General led to his candidacy during the 1920 Democratic National Convention. Neither he nor fellow front-runner and Wilson Secretary of the Treasury/Cabinet member William G. McAdoo could break the deadlock, and the nomination went to the dark-horse Governor of Ohio James M. Cox.

Palmer then engaged in the practice of law in Washington, D.C., and Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania and died in Washington, D.C., on May 11, 1936. He is buried in Laurelwood Cemetery, Stroudsburg.

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