John S. Sumner
Male, Deceased Person
1876 – 1971
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Who was John S. Sumner?
John Saxton Sumner headed the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, a New York state censorship body empowered to recommend obscenity cases to the appropriate prosecutors. He served as Associate Secretary of the NYSSV for three years, succeeding founder Anthony Comstock as Executive Secretary in 1915, upon the latter's death. Sumner retired in 1950; the organization, by then named the Society to Maintain Public Decency, was disbanded shortly thereafter.
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- Born
- Sep 22, 1876
Washington, D.C. - Also known as
- John Sumner
- Died
- Jun 20, 1971
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on July 23, 2013
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