Everett P. Wheeler
| death_date = | birth_place = New York City | death_place = Manhattan | restingplace = Green-Wood Cemetery }} Everett Pepperrell Wheeler (1840, New York City – 1925) was an American lawyer, author, politician, and anti-suffrage activist.He graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1856 and from Harvard in 1859, obtaining an LL.B. 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 David B. Hill. Later he helped found the Citizens Union. Wheeler drafted the bill which created in 1897 the consolidated City of New York, incorporating the boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island. He was one of the founders of the American Bar Association.
Wheeler headed anti-suffrage organizations in the 1910s, such as the Men's Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage He claimed his organizations produced a hundred thousand propaganda tracts against legal voting for women. He expressed particular opposition to black women 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) * [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31175035168007 ''The Case Against Woman Suffrage''] (1915) Provided by Wikipedia
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Sixty years of American life : Taylor to Roosevelt, 1850 to 1910 / by Wheeler, Everett Pepperrell, 1840-1925
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The modern law of carriers, or, the limitation of the common-law liability of common carriers : under the law of merchant, statutes and special contracts / by Wheeler, Everett Pepperrell, 1840-1925
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American Bar Association's recommendations as to judicial procedure : a paper presented at the thirty-second annual meeting of the New York State Bar Association held at the city o... by Wheeler, Everett Pepperrell, 1840-1925
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Constitutional law of the United States as moulded by Daniel Webster : a paper presented at the twenty-seventh annual meeting of the New York State Bar Association, held at the cit... by Wheeler, Everett Pepperrell, 1840-1925
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Reminiscences of a lawyer : a few pages from the record of a busy life : in memoriam, Everett Pepperrell Wheeler / by Wheeler, Everett Pepperrell, 1840-1925
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A world court and international police / by Wheeler, Everett Pepperrell, 1840-1925
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Influence of the United States upon Great Britain during the nineteenth century : address by Everett Pepperrell Wheeler, before the Pepperrel Association at Kittery, Maine. by Wheeler, Everett Pepperrell, 1840-1925
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The law of prize : as affected by decisions upon captures made during the late war between Spain and the United States / by Wheeler, Everett Pepperrell, 1840-1925
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Daniel Webster : the expounder of the Constitution / by Wheeler, Everett Pepperrell, 1840-1925
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The rights of American citizens in Turkey : address delivered at Chickering hall, New York, November 9, 1896, under the auspices of the National Armenian Relief Committee / by Wheeler, Everett Pepperrell, 1840-1925
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The Harter Act : recent legislation in the United States respecting bills of lading : read at the annual meeting of the International Law Association, held at Buffalo, September 1,... by Wheeler, Everett Pepperrell, 1840-1925
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