Ernest Angell

Ernest Angell (1889 – January 11, 1973)[1] served as President of the American Civil Liberties Union for 19 years,[2] from 1950 to 1969.

His first wife Katharine Sergeant Angell White was fiction editor of The New Yorker and their son Roger Angell is a writer.[1]

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 Angell, Roger (7 June 2004). "Hard Lines". New Yorker. Retrieved 6 May 2015. My father, Ernest Angell, lost his father at the age of nine, in a marine disaster, the 1898 sinking of the French liner La Bourgogne
  2. ↑ "Lawyer Elected Head of A.C.L.U.". The New York Times. 1969-07-01.
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