Thaddeus B. Wakeman Explained

Thaddeus B. Wakeman, also known as T.B. Wakeman, was an American attorney, politician, editor and political philosopher. He graduated from Princeton University. Generally ascribed as a liberal freethought philosopher, he was a speaker at the 1878 Freethinkers' Convention at Watkins, New York.^[1] He served as president of the National Liberal League, ran unsuccessfully for Attorney General in the New York state election of 1887, and was editor of the liberal paper Man.^[2] He was also the head of the Liberal University of Oregon, later relocated to Kansas City, Missouri.^[3]

His daughter Emily Wakeman Hartley founded and managed the Stamford Theatre in Stamford, Connecticut.^[4]

Notes and References

1. The Proceedings and Addresses at the Freethinkers' Convention held at Watkins, N.Y., pp. 373-381.
2. Princeton Alumni Weekly, Vol. III, no. 20, p. 300
3. Young, Ellen. John Emerson Roberts: Kansas City's "Up-To-Date" Freethought Preacher (XLibris Corporation, 2011), pp. 129-130.
4. A. P., "A Woman Who Financed and Built a Theatre" The Theatre (September 1914): 113-114, 131-132.