Biography:Prescott F. Hall

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Prescott F. Hall
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Born
Prescott Farnsworth Hall

DiedMay 28, 1921(1921-05-28) (aged 52)
Brookline, Massachusetts
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materHarvard University
OccupationLawyer, writer
Spouse(s)Eva Lucyle Irby
Parent(s)Samuel Farnsworth Hall, Mary Elisabeth Hall

Prescott Farnsworth Hall (27 September 1868 – 28 May 1921) was an American lawyer and author who championed nativism, eugenics and anti-immigration views.[1]

Career

After preparation at G. W. Noble's School in Boston he entered Harvard, graduating from the college in 1889 and from the Law School in 1892. In May 1894, he became one of the founders and first secretary of the Immigration Restriction League, today considered the first anti-immigrant think tank in the United States.[2] He was also a member of the American Society for Psychical Research, the Bostonian Society and the American Genetic Association. An advocate of scientific racism and eugenics, he is known today primarily for his role in lobbying for the passage of what became the Immigration Act of 1917, which created a federal framework for restricting immigration—by imposing a literacy test, levying an $8 charge on every immigrant, and creating a massive exclusion zone with the Asiatic Barred Zone.[3]

Works

Articles

See also

  • Charles Davenport
  • Immigration to the United States
  • Eugenics in the United States
  • Madison Grant
  • Robert DeCourcy Ward

References

  1. Marinari, Maddalena (2022). "The 1921 and 1924 Immigration Acts a Century Later: Roots and Long Shadows". Journal of American History. https://academic.oup.com/jah/article/109/2/271/6747696. 
  2. Lee, Erika (2019). America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States. New York: Basic Books. p. 115. ISBN 978-1-5416-7260-4. 
  3. Swidey, Neil. "Trump's anti-immigration playbook was written 100 years ago. In Boston.". https://apps.bostonglobe.com/magazine/graphics/2017/01/immigration/. 
  4. Bradford, Edward A. (1906). "Immigration: A Fascinating Subject as It Is Discussed in Prescott F. Hall's Book on Its Effects in This Country," The New York Times, March 10.
  5. Grant, Percy Stickney (1912). "American Ideals and Race Mixture," The North American Review, Vol. 195, No. 677.
  6. Reed, H. L. (1913). "Immigration and Insanity," Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 21, No. 10.

Sources

  • Cannato, Vincent J. (2009). "Immigration and the Brahmins," Humanities, Volume 30, Number 3.
  • Connelly, Matthew (2006). "Seeing Beyond the State: The Population Control Movement and the Problem of Sovereignty," Past & Present, No. 193.
  • Higham, John (1952). "Origins of Immigration Restriction, 1882–1897: A Social Analysis," The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 39, No. 1.
  • Higham, John (1955). Strangers in the Land; Patterns of American Nativism, 1860–1925, Rutgers University Press.
  • Jones, Maldwyn Allen (1960). American Immigration, University of Chicago Press.
  • Phillips, Norman R. (1959). "Genetics and Political Conservatism," The Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 12, No. 3.
  • Pleasants, Helene, ed. (1964). Biographical Dictionary of Parapsychology. New York: Garret Publications.
  • Pula, James S. (1995). "The Progressives, the Immigrant, and the Workplace: Defining Public Perceptions, 1900–1914," Polish American Studies, Vol. 52, No. 2.

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