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Allan Thurman


Allan W. Thurman

Allen William Thurman (1847–1922) was president of the Ohio Board of Administration in 1912. He was president of the American Association in 1890 and 1891 where he was known as "The White Winged Angel of Peace", so called because he helped negotiate the end of the labor strife that had resulted in the formation of the Players' League and the weakening of the finances of organized baseball. He was replaced by Louis Kramer. As a eugenicist he argued that "unless Ohio takes prompt measures to stop the production of imbeciles, within ten years it will be bankrupted by the cost of maintaining this part of its population."

Biography

He was born around 1835 in Chillicothe, Ohio to Allen Granberry Thurman and Mary Anderson Dun. In 1855 he married Mary P. Halliday.

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