Anti-Imperialism and Liberty by M. Patrick Cullinane

David Greene Haskins, Jr.

Birth/Death: 1845 / 1926

League Membership:             Faneuil Hall Meeting, June 15, 1898
                                               New England Anti-Imperialist League, 1899
                                               American Anti-Imperialist League, 1899
                                               The Anti-Imperialist League, 1904-1921

Role in League: Treasurer, Executive Committee

Occupation: Lawyer

Brief Biography

David Greene Haskins was the son of a prominent Minister and a Boston Brahmin. Haskins earned his law degree from Harvard in 1869 and was a well known lawyer associated with many of Boston's activist organizations such as the Reform Club. He also joined several historical societies. Haskins was a long-time liberal northern Democrat and he ran for Congress in 1904. He was the Treasurer of the Anti-Imperialist Leagues throughout the organization's tenure and was such an ardent anti-imperialist that he initiated his newborn son into the League in 1910. Haskins worked closely with fellow Boston anti-imperialist Erving Winslow.

Primary:

David Greene Haskins, Ralph Waldo Emerson (Boston: Cupples, Upham, and Co. 1887).

Secondary:

M. Patrick Cullinane, Liberty and Anti-Imperialism, June 2, 2009.

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