Alexander Mitchell Palmer (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alexander Mitchell Palmer (May 4, 1872 - May 11, 1936) was Attorney General of the United States from 1919 to 1921. He was nicknamed The Fighting Quaker and he directed the controversial Palmer Raids. Palmer was elected as a Democrat to the 61st, 62nd, and 63rd Congresses and served from March 4, 1909, to March 3, 1915. From the start he won important party assignments, serving as vice-chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in his first term and managing the assignment of office space in his second term. After winning re-election in 1910, otherwise a very bad year for Democrats, he successfully led the younger progressives in his party in a revolt against Pennsylvania's Democratic establishment. Though he disclaimed personal ambition as his motive, he accepted an appointment as Pennsylvania's member on the Democratic National Committee "temporarily" in 1911, a post he held until 1921.