As U.S. attorney general, Alexander Mitchell Palmer (1872-1936) was instrumental in creating the "red scare" of internal Communist subversion after World War I and was responsible for the illegal arre...
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Alexander Mitchell Palmer served as U.S. attorney general from 1919 to 1921 under President Woodrow Wilson. Palmer is regarded as one of the most controversial attorneys general in U.S. history, as he...
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