The Resume

(March 7, 1844-September 21, 1915)
Born in New Canaan, Connecticut
Founder of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice (1873)
Appointed special agent for the US Post Office to keep 'obscene, lewd or lascivious material' out of the mails (1873)

Why he might be annoying:

His notion of what was lewd was so broad that some anatomy textbooks were banned.
He boasted of hounding 15 people into committing suicide.
He regularly resorted to fraud and entrapment in his anti-vice crusades.
His motto was 'Morals, not art or literature.'
He called George Bernard Shaw an 'Irish smut peddler.'

Why he might not be annoying:

He fought for the Union during the Civil War (1863-65).
He helped shut down the corrupt Louisiana Lottery.
He suffered a serious blow to the head from an anonymous assailant.

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• AC/DC
• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 06]
• Censors and Wannabes
• Chrome Domes and Cue Balls
• Eminent Victorians
• I Adopted a Child
• I Died in 1915 (Ranked: 71)
• I Outlived My Child
• Mutton Chops
• My Spouse is at Least Ten Years Older than Me
• Profiles 21001-21250 (Ranked: 21234)
• Walruses

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 8 Votes: 87.50% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 9 Votes: 88.89% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 5 Votes: 20.0% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 10 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 98 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 733 Votes: 59.35% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 19 Votes: 52.63% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 29 Votes: 51.72% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 28 Votes: 46.43% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 42 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 65 Votes: 41.54% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 49 Votes: 75.51% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 86 Votes: 76.74% Annoying