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Immigration Restriction League
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The Immigration Restriction League was founded in 1894 by a group of Bostonians who sought to make literacy a requirement for admission into the United States. The U.S. Congress passed such a measure, but President Grover Cleveland vetoed it in 1897, calling it "illiberal, narrow, and un-American." The League continued in its efforts for the next several decades and was instrumental in lobbying efforts for new literacy tests in 1912 and 1917 - both of which passed in Congress but which were vetoed by Presidents Taft and Wilson. The League saw victory in its decades-long efforts when in 1921 the first of two immigration quota laws were passed by Congress and upheld by the president.
- Robert DeCourcy Ward, founder
- Prescott Farnsworth Hall, president [1]
- Madison Grant, vice president
- George F. Edmunds, founding member [2]
- John Fiske, founding member [3]
- Robert Treat Paine, founding member
- Nathaniel Shaler, founding member
- Henry Cabot Lodge [4]
- Frank B. Gary [5]
- Owen Wister [6]
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