Shaw, Albert (1857-1947)

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Albert Shaw to Jane Addams, July 24, 1904

S. Berhman to Jane Addams, July 30, 1904

Albert Shaw to Jane Addams, July 12, 1913

Announcement, Association pour la Sauvegarde du Droit es Gens, 1915

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Birth Date

1857-07-23

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1947-06-25

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Shandon, OH

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Albert Shaw was a journalist and activist. He attended Grinnell College, then Iowa College, and studied constitutional history and economic science before going to graduate school at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He worked as an editor for the Minneapolis Tribune from 1883 to 1900, with one break during 1888. He then started the American Review of Reviews, based on a British journal of the same name. He was interested in improving the situations of people through municipal governments. In 1895, he published Municipal Government in Great Britain.

Shaw married Elizabeth Leonard Bacon in 1893. Shaw died in 1947.