Albert E. Pillsbury

Albert Enoch Pillsbury
Albert Enoch Pillsbury
17th Massachusetts Attorney General
	In office; 1891–1894
Governor	William E. Russell
Preceded by	Andrew J. Waterman
Succeeded by	Hosea M. Knowlton
President of the Massachusetts Senate
	In office; 1885–1886
Preceded by	George A. Bruce
Succeeded by	Halsey J. Boardman
Member of the; Massachusetts Senate; from the 6th Suffolk district
	In office; 1884–1886
Member of the; Massachusetts House of Representatives
	In office; 1876–1878
Personal details
Born	August 19, 1849; Milford, New Hampshire
Died	December 23, 1930 (aged 81); Newton, Massachusetts
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Louisa Fuller (Johnson) Wheeler, m. July 9, 1889.; Elizabeth Mooney, m. July 1, 1905
Children	Elizabeth Dinsmoor, b. July 21, 1907; Parker Webster, b. March 17, 1910
Alma mater	Lawrence Academy, Harvard College class of 1871
Profession	Attorney
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Albert Enoch Pillsbury (August 19, 1849 – December 23, 1930) was a Boston lawyer who served in both houses of the Massachusetts legislature, president of the Massachusetts State Senate, and as the Attorney General of Massachusetts from 1891 to 1894. In addition to being a member of the National Negro Committee, the precursor to the NAACP, Pillsbury was a member of the Boston Committee to Advance the Cause of the Negro, which in 1911 became a branch of the NAACP. It was Pillsbury who drafted the bylaws of the NAACP. In 1913, he resigned his membership in the American Bar Association when that organization rejected the membership of William H. Lewis, a black assistant U.S. attorney and supporter of Booker T. Washington. In 1913, Pillsbury was awarded an honorary LL.D. degree from Howard University. It was there he delivered his speech illuminating, defending and praising President Lincoln's role in ending slavery that became a small book, Lincoln and Slavery.^[6]

1917 Massachusetts Constitutional Convention

In 1916 the Massachusetts legislature and electorate approved a calling of a Constitutional Convention.^[7] In May 1917 Pillsbury was elected to serve as a member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1917, representing the Ninth Norfolk District of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.

He was the nephew of abolitionist Parker Pillsbury.

References

See Footnote 1 to letter dated "25 Feb 1900" from A. E. Pillsbury to Booker T. Washington. The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol. 5: 1899-1900, pp.449-450, University of Illinois Press.

Footnotes

^ Barnes, Albert Mallard (1921), Report of the secretary of the class of 1871 of Harvard college, Issue 11, Cambridge, MA: The Riverside Press, p. 134
^ Toomey, Daniel P. (1892), Massachusetts of Today: a Memorial of the State, Historical and Biographical, Boston, MA: Columbia Publishing Company, p. 30
^ "A. E. Pillsbury Dies; A Bay State Leader; Former Attorney General Was President of Massachusetts Senate in 1885-86. Practiced Law 50 Years; He Was Candidate for Governor in 1893 but Withdrew From Race-- Was 81 Years Old". The New York Times. December 24, 1930. p. 10. Retrieved December 1, 2009.
^ Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, Boston, MA: Wright & Potter printing co., state printers, 1919, p. 626
^ Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, Boston, MA: Wright & Potter printing co., state printers, 1919, p. 11
^ Jager, Ronald and Grace Jager, Historical Pillsbury, Friends of Pillsbury State Park, 1976
^ Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, MA: Wright & Potter printing co., state printers, 1919, pp. 7–8

External links

Works by Pillsbury at Open Library

Legal offices
Preceded by Andrew J. Waterman	Attorney General of Massachusetts 1891–1894	Succeeded by Hosea M. Knowlton
Political offices
Preceded by George A. Bruce	President of the Massachusetts Senate 1885 — 1886	Succeeded by Halsey J. Boardman

[barnes-1] Barnes, Albert Mallard (1921), Report of the secretary of the class of 1871 of Harvard college, Issue 11, Cambridge, MA: The Riverside Press, p. 134

[Toomey1892p30-2] Toomey, Daniel P. (1892), Massachusetts of Today: a Memorial of the State, Historical and Biographical, Boston, MA: Columbia Publishing Company, p. 30

[3] "A. E. Pillsbury Dies; A Bay State Leader; Former Attorney General Was President of Massachusetts Senate in 1885-86. Practiced Law 50 Years; He Was Candidate for Governor in 1893 but Withdrew From Race-- Was 81 Years Old". The New York Times. December 24, 1930. p. 10. Retrieved December 1, 2009.

[4] Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, Boston, MA: Wright & Potter printing co., state printers, 1919, p. 626

[ReferenceA-5] Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, Boston, MA: Wright & Potter printing co., state printers, 1919, p. 11

[6] Jager, Ronald and Grace Jager, Historical Pillsbury, Friends of Pillsbury State Park, 1976

[7] Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, MA: Wright & Potter printing co., state printers, 1919, pp. 7–8

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