Anthony Comstock

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Comstock served in the Civil War and created the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice. He is also famous for the Comstock law and the term comstockery meaning censorship because of perceived obscenity or immorality.

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kcivilwarperson, comstockery, comstock law, ny society for the suppression of vice

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Thos. W. Herringshaw, The Biographical Review of Prominent Men and Women of the Day (Chicago: Elliott and Beezley, 1889) 185

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