John B. Trevor Sr.

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John Bond Trevor Sr. (1878–1956) was an American lawyer described as "one of the most influential unelected officials affiliated with the U.S. Congress." [1] He was very active in the immigration debate [2] as "the most influential lobbyist for restriction." [3] He was especially influential in shaping the Immigration Act of 1924. [4]

Trevor received his law degree from Harvard and was a prominent New York socialite. [5] Trevor belonged to the circle of Madison Grant. [6] According to the New York Times, Trevor was a founder of the American Coalition of Patriotic Societies, adviser to Billy James Hargis' Christian Crusade and author of an article on South Africa that appeared in The Citizen, the publication of the White Citizens' Councils. [7]

Following World War I, Trevor worked in military intelligence. According to historian William H. Tucker, "Trevor developed a plan to suppress a mass uprising of Jewish subversives in New York City, going so far as to order 6,000 rifles and a machine gun battalion for deployment in Jewish neighborhoods in anticipation of a disturbance that never took place." [1] Trevor worked with William Kullgren, who distributed Nazi literature and sought to "awaken America to the diabolical Jew control" [8] Trevor was also one of the U.S. sponsors of Communism in Germany [9] a book published in the Reich to celebrate the victory of Nazism over "Jewish Marxist-Bolshevism" [10] Prior to World War II, Trevor, as head of the American Coalition, collaborated on a number of projects designed to distribute Nazi propaganda. In 1942, according to investigative journalist Adam Miller, the coalition "was named in a U.S. Justice Department sedition indictment for pro-Nazi activities." [11] [12]

Trevor and Pennsylvania senator David A. Reed proposed assigning restrictive immigration quotas. [4] He married Caroline Wilmerding in 1908 [13] and had two sons. His son John B. Trevor Jr. was a prominent figure in the Pioneer Fund.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Tucker, William H (2002). The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund. University of Illinois Press, ISBN 0252027620
  2. ^ Nelkin D, Michaels M. Biological categories and border controls: the revival of eugenics in anti-immigration rhetoric. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Volume 18, Number 56, 1998, pp. 35-63(29)
  3. ^ Margo Conk. The Census, Political Power, and Social Change: The Significance of Population Growth in American History. Social Science History, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Winter, 1984), pp. 81-106
  4. ^ a b Trevor, John B. An Analysis of the American Immigration Act of 1924.
  5. ^ Staff report (February 21, 1956). John Trevor dies; Urged Alien Law; Lawyer Helped Set Up the quota System, Assisted in Congressional Inquiries Got Legion of Honor. New York Times
  6. ^ John Higham. American Immigration Policy in Historical Perspective. Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 21, No. 2, Immigration (Spring, 1956), pp. 213-235
  7. ^ Lichtenstein, Grace (December 11, 1977). Fund Backs Controversial Study of "Racial Betterment." New York Times
  8. ^ J. R. Carlson, Under Cover (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1943), 147-149, 196
  9. ^ Communism in Germany(Berlin: Eckart Verlag, 1933)
  10. ^ M. Sayers and A. E. Kahn, The Great Conspiracy (Boston: Little, Brown), 351-352.
  11. ^ Adam Miller is quoted in M. A. Lee, The Beast Reawakens (Boston: Little, Brown, 1997), 365
  12. ^ J. W. Bendersky, The "Jewish Threat" (New York: Basic Books, 2000)
  13. ^ Staff report (June 26, 1908). J.B. TREVOR WEDS MISS WILMERDING; Countess of Strafford's Daughter and Miss Drayton the Bridesmaids. R.W. GOELET BEST MAN Willard Duncan Howe of Pittston, Penn., Leads Miss Pauline Howard of This City to the Altar. New York Times
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