Thaddeus B. Wakeman
American philosopher
Thaddeus B. Wakeman , also known as T.B. Wakeman , was an American attorney, politician, editor and political philosopher . He graduated from Princeton University . [ clarification needed ] Generally ascribed as a liberal freethought philosopher, he was a speaker at the 1878 Freethinkers' Convention at Watkins, New York . [1] He served as president of the National Liberal League [ when? ] , ran unsuccessfully for Attorney General in the New York state election of 1887 , and was editor of the liberal paper Man . [2] He was also the head of the Liberal University of Oregon , later relocated to Kansas City, Missouri . [3] [ self-published source ]
His daughter Emily Wakeman Hartley founded and managed the Stamford Theatre in Stamford, Connecticut . [4]
References
- ↑ The Proceedings and Addresses at the Freethinkers' Convention held at Watkins, N.Y. , pp. 373-381.
- ↑ Princeton Alumni Weekly , Vol. III, no. 20, p. 300
- ↑ Young, Ellen. John Emerson Roberts: Kansas City's "Up-To-Date" Freethought Preacher (XLibris Corporation, 2011), pp. 129-130.
- ↑ A. P., "A Woman Who Financed and Built a Theatre" The Theatre (September 1914): 113-114, 131-132.
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