James Phinney Munroe

Birth/Death:                             1862 / 1929

League Membership:             Committee of Correspondence
                                               The Anti-Imperialist League, 1898-1899
                                               New England Anti-Imperialist League, 1899
                                               The Anti-Imperialist League, 1904-1921

Role in League:                      Active Member, Executive Committee

Occupation:                            Manufacturer

Brief Biography

Munroe graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1888 and joined his father to run the family's business. He was the Treasurer and President of the Munroe Felt and Paper Company. Munroe was most active as a reformer in education, involved his entire life in MIT's alumni association. He was the president of the National Society of Vocational Education. His anti-imperialism stemmed from his membership of Boston's Twentieth Century Club where he met fellow social activists like Edwin Mead and Moorfield Storey. Munroe rose to become the Club's President and although he did not write or give speeches on anti-imperialism, derived from his writings on equality and justice in education and gender roles is a profile of an activist who fits into the same ilk as Moorfield Storey.

Primary:

James Phinney Munroe, The Educational Ideal: An Outline of Its Growth in Modern Times (Boston: D.C. Heath, 1895).

———, The Destruction of the Convent at Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1834 (Boston: New England Magazine Company, 1901).

———, New Demands in Education (New York: Doubleday, 1912).

———, The New England Conscience, With Typical Examples (Boston: R.G. Badger, 1915).

———, The Human Factor in Education (New York: Macmillan, 1920).

———, A Life of Francis Amasa Walker (New York: H. Holt, 1923).

Secondary:

M. Patrick Cullinane, Liberty and Anti-Imperialism, June 11, 2009.

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