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Simpson was born on July 24, 1789, in Philadelphia, the son of George Simpson, who had been an official in the Bank of North America, the Bank of the United States, and Girard's Bank.
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Simpson was born on July 24, 1789, in Philadelphia, the son of George Simpson, who had been an official in the Bank of North America, the Bank of the United States, and Girard's Bank.
Stephen gained a keen understanding of how the banks operated and of their many abuses from his father.
Following the occupation of his father, Stephen became a note clerk in the second Bank of the United States and afterwards cashier of Girard's Bank. His father had been assistant commissary-general in the Revolution; Stephen enlisted for the War of 1812 and distinguished himself at the battle of New Orleans, at the same time forming an admiration for Andrew Jackson which motivated much of his political writing a decade later.
After the war, with his brother-in-law Tobias Watkins, Simpson founded the Portico, Baltimore, a miscellany discussing every topic from Russian literature to nervous diseases, of which he was joint editor from January 1816 to June 1817. The financial failure of this magazine did not deter him from becoming co-proprietor with John Conrad in 1822 of the weekly Columbian Observer, Philadelphia, in which Jackson was as extravagantly praised as Calhoun was extravagantly condemned. He wrote for the Aurora and contributed an essay on "The Waywardness of Genius" to The Philadelphia Book; or Specimens of Metropolitan Literature (1836). He also wrote a series of editorials publicly attacking the First Bank of the United States.
Simpson was the first, but unsuccessful, candidate for Congress of the initial political organization of workers in the United States, the Workingmen's Party of Philadelphia; paradoxically, for he was opposed to several leading principles of the old Hamiltonians, he was at the same time (1830) the candidate of the Federal Party.
In an appendix to his Manual he retreated from his former objections to the United States Bank and its notes, thus losing influence among the working men whom he had led. In 1832 he published a Biography of Stephen Girard which displayed the financier's foibles with more humor than hostility, and the following year issued The Lives of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson: with a Parallel (1833); the biographies contained in the latter volume were reprinted separately in 1844.
Simpson continued in his writings the remainder of his life. He died in Philadelphia on August 17, 1854, at the age of 65. He is buried in the family vault, at Saint Paul's Church, on South Third Street in Philadelphia.
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The chief expression of his political views is to be found in The Working Man's Manual; a New Theory of Political Economy on the Principle of Production the Source of Wealth (Philadelphia, 1831). This was written at the time of his political candidacy, and is informed by the philosophy of Robert Owen as made specific in the advocacies of Robert Dale Owen and Frances Wright. It owed much also to the nationalist economic demands of Mathew Carey and others among the Philadelphia protectionist writers.
The chief filchers of labor's just rewards were the fund holders and the land monopolists, upheld by outworn legal sanctions. He wanted, instead of "personal parties, " political division according to economic allegiance. "The party of the producers, " he maintained, opposing "the party of stockholders and capitalists" and gaining the ascendency, "could not fail to shed a genial, and prosperous beam upon the whole society. Such a party would merely exhibit the interest of society, concentrating for the true fulfilment of the original terms of the social compact. " Simpson resembled in America the Chartists in England. He desired to improve the condition of labor through parliamentary means.
Political action by the workingmen, however, required a system of free public education. Simpson resented the economic exploitation of workers hardly less than the cultural patronage to which they were treated by the rich and learned, although, unlike Frances Wright, he opposed literary education for women because he thought it would take them from the circle of the family and make them labor competitors of men.
Simpson was an economic optimist, as befitted one viewing the productivity of a new country; it was not the niggardliness of nature, but the injustice of social institutions which held down the standard of living. He espoused the protective tariff to encourage manufactures.
Simpson was married to Mary Chaloner Watkins but there is no record about the date of marriage, any children or other related information available.