| Birth: | Mar. 7, 1844 | | Death: | Sep. 21, 1915 | 
Social Reformer. He was the founder of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, and was the father of the Comstock laws (1873) enacted in order to exclude obscene matter from the mails. In his various campaigns, he caused the arrest of more than 3,000 persons and destroyed 15 tons of books, 284,000 pounds of steretyped plates for printing objectionable books, and nearly 4,000,000 pictures. In 1905, after Comstock had alerted the New York police to the content of George Bernard Shaw's play Mrs. Warrens Profession, Shaw observed that "Comstockery is the world's standing joke at the expense of the United States." Comstockery thus entered the English language, defined in Webster's as "strict censorship of materials considered obscene." (bio by: Joe Fodor)
Search Amazon for Anthony Comstock | | | Burial:
The Evergreens Cemetery
Brooklyn
Kings County
New York, USA
Plot: Sumachs Section, Lot 95 |
Maintained by: Find A Grave
Record added: Jan 30, 2001
Find A Grave Memorial# 19982 |
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I pray that you will one day be freed from your fiery torment.
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Sterling Johnson
Added: Jul. 7, 2010 |
Dear Anthony, you bragged that you drove 15 to their death with your relentless persecution of their "obscenity." Well the supreme court no longer supports your view. Wonder how you explained these deaths to your maker when you finally died.
-Anonymous
Added: Apr. 25, 2010 |
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Donna Lee Wall
Added: Sep. 21, 2009 |
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