28 Facts About Moorfield Storey

Moorfield Storey was an American lawyer, anti-imperial activist, and civil rights leader based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Moorfield Storey was born in 1845 in Roxbury, Massachusetts, then a suburb of Boston.

Moorfield Storey's family was descended from the earliest Puritan settlers in New England and had close connections with the abolitionist movement.

The young Moorfield Storey went to the Boston Latin School and graduated in 1862, during the beginning of the Civil War.

Moorfield Storey then continued onto Harvard University, where he was a member of the Glee Club, graduating in 1866, and then studied at Harvard Law School.

Moorfield Storey established a law practice in Boston, Massachusetts as a founding partner of the firm Moorfield Storey, Thorndike, Palmer, Dodge.

Moorfield Storey was elected president of the American Bar Association in 1896, and was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Moorfield Storey was a well-known person in the "Mugwump" movement of 1884, and actively supported Grover Cleveland.

Moorfield Storey was a vice president of the New England Anti-Imperialist League.

From 1905 until its dissolution in 1921 Moorfield Storey was the Anti-Imperialist League's President.

Moorfield Storey perceived that "national subjugation overseas and racial persecution at home were related," which drove his efforts at reform.

Moorfield Storey was known to work 16-hour days, even into his later years.

Late in the campaign of 1900, Moorfield Storey seriously pondered running for president on a third-party ticket but decided against it as impractical.

Moorfield Storey opposed immigration restrictions, and supported racial equality and self-determination.

Moorfield Storey was the first president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, from its founding in 1909 until his death in 1929.

Moorfield Storey was on the conservative side in the Sacco and Vanzetti case.

Moorfield Storey was, with James Weldon Johnson, the organizer of the 1919 National Conference on Lynching.

In 1920 Moorfield Storey led the NAACP to take on the defense of the Elaine Twelve in their appeals from convictions for murder and the death penalty.

Moorfield Storey was on the advisory committee of the American Fund for Public Service Committee on American Imperialism.

Moorfield Storey died in Lincoln, Massachusetts in 1929, survived by four of his five children with Gertrude Cutts, whom he had married in 1870.

Moorfield Storey's children were Charles Moorfield Storey, Elizabeth Storey Lovett, Richard Storey, Gertude Storey Burke and Katharine Storey Donald.

Moorfield Storey was longtime friends with Edward Waldo Emerson, son of famous American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Just after their graduation, Moorfield Storey was one of two friends that accompanied Emerson on a camping trip.

The camping party encountered a fierce storm on their second night out, and Moorfield Storey worked to lighten the mood by singing through storm, with the younger Emerson joining in to sing the chorus.

From 1867 to 1869, Moorfield Storey was a clerk for the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, and served as a private secretary to its chairman, Senator Charles Sumner.

Moorfield Storey was introduced to Sumner through his father, and moved to the Senator's house after his graduation from Harvard University.

Moorfield Storey accepted the position as it seemed the best route to continue his legal studies.

Moorfield Storey spent two years of his life as the Senator's right-hand man and one of his only friends, as the progressive Sumner had made many enemies in Washington.