Everett Pepperrell Wheeler (1840,

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– 1925) was an American lawyer, author, politician, and

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activist. He graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1856 and from

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in 1859, obtaining an

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degree. In 1894, he was an unsuccessful candidate for governor of New York, nominated by a split faction of the Democratic Party who were barred from the state convention, and opposed the nomination of ex-governor

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. Later he helped found the

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. Wheeler drafted the bill which created in 1897 the consolidated City of New York, incorporating the boroughs of

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and

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. He was one of the founders of the

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. Wheeler headed anti-suffrage organizations in the

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, such as the

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He claimed his organizations produced a hundred thousand

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tracts against legal voting for women. He expressed particular opposition to

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voting. His writings include: * ''Wages and the Tariff'' (1888) * ''Modern Law of Carriers'' (1890) * ''Real Bimetallism'' (1895) * ''The Harter Act'' (1899) * ''The Knowledge of Faith'' (1904) * ''Daniel Webster, Expounder of the Constitution'' (1905)
''The Case Against Woman Suffrage''
(1915)

Sources

at www.usgennet.org New York History gov election 1894

at www.usgennet.org New York gov election result 1894

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Wheeler, Everett Pepperrell 1840 births 1925 deaths American non-fiction writers Harvard Law School alumni Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery City College of New York alumni American anti-suffragists