Albert E. Pillsbury
Lawyer, Author
1849 – 1930
Who was Albert E. Pillsbury?
Albert Enoch Pillsbury was a Boston lawyer who served in both houses of the Massachusetts legislature, President of the Massachusetts State Senate, and as the Attorney General of Massachusetts from 1891 to 1894. In addition to being a member of the National Negro Committee, the precursor to the NAACP, Pillsbury was a member of the Boston Committee to Advance the Cause of the Negro, which in 1911 became a branch of the NAACP. It was Pillsbury who drafted the bylaws of the NAACP. In 1913, he resigned his membership in the American Bar Association when that organization rejected the membership of William H. Lewis, a black assistant U.S. attorney and supporter of Booker T. Washington. In 1913, Pillsbury was awarded an honorary LL.D. degree from Howard University. It was there he delivered his speech illuminating, defending and praising President Lincoln's role in ending slavery that became a small book, Lincoln and Slavery.
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- Born
- Aug 19, 1849
Milford - Also known as
- Albert Pillsbury
- Spouses
- Profession
- Education
- Harvard College
- Lawrence Academy at Groton
- Died
- 1930
Newton
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on July 23, 2013
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