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Alexander Mitchell Palmer (May 4, 1872 – May 11, 1936) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 50th United States attorney general from 1919 to 1921. He is best known for overseeing the Palmer Raids during the Red Scare of 1919–20.
May 9, 2024 · A. Mitchell Palmer (born May 4, 1872, Moosehead, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died May 11, 1936, Washington, D.C.) was an American lawyer, legislator, and U.S. attorney general (1919–21) whose highly publicized campaigns against suspected radicals touched off the so-called Red Scare of 1919–20.
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Feb 1, 2018 · Learn about the Palmer Raids, a series of violent and abusive law-enforcement raids directed at leftist radicals and anarchists in 1919 and 1920, led by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. Find out how the raids sparked a vigorous debate about constitutional rights and led to the creation of the ACLU.
Jun 8, 2018 · A U.S. attorney general who led the "red scare" of 1920, rounding up thousands of aliens suspected of subversive activities. He was also a congressman, a judge, and a presidential candidate.
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.
The raids, fueled by social unrest following World War I, were led by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer and are viewed as the climax of that era’s so-called Red Scare.
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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.
