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4 unusual facts about George Weston Anderson


George W. Anderson

George Weston Anderson (1861–1937), American jurist, Federal judge from Massachusetts

George Weston Anderson

He served as an active judge for 13 years and is remembered for dissenting when the court upheld some of the convictions arising from the Red Scare of 1919-20.

President Woodrow Wilson appointed him United States Attorney for Massachusetts and he served in that position from 1914 to 1917, followed by one year as a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission.

For example, during Senate hearings held to consider charges that Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer had ignored due process in arresting radicals in late 1919 and early 1920, a former Department of Justice official testified that Anderson had shown favoritism to witnesses on behalf of the defendant aliens in the Colyer deportation case.



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