John Trevor

Education

Harvard Law School.

Career

Trevor received his law degree from Harvard and was a prominent New York socialite. Trevor belonged to the circle of Madison Grant. During World War I, Trevor worked in military intelligence as a United States Army captain and was decorated as chevalier in the French Légion d’Honneur for his assistance to the French Army in a matter of national importance.

In 1919, he was deputy attorney general of the State of New New York

In 1954, the Atlanta Constitution published an article falsely associating Trevor with an organization called the Coalition of Patriotic Societies that supposedly was pro-Nazi. This story was later retracted on the front page of the Atlanta Constitution on 23 January 1957.

Despite this published retraction and the corroborating sworn testimony of Special Assistant Attorney General of the United States, William P. Mahoney, certain authors continue to perpetuate this slander by citing the original false article. Mr. Trevor was a founding trustee of Paul Smith"s College of Arts and Sciences, and at various times a trustee of the American Museum of Natural History, a trustee of New York University, and Commodore of the Saint Regis Yacht Club (1938-1939).

They had two sons.

Achievements

• He sat several times in the House of Commons.

Politics

Immigration advocate Louis Adamic wrote of Trevor that "if a man"s love for his country is measurable by his detestation of all who had the bad taste to be born elsewhere, there probably is no greater patriot in America to-day." While Adamic is entitled to his opinion, the Sons of the American Revolution recognized Trevor"s patriotism by awarding him their gold medal for Americanism in 1951. In 1927 he founded a committee that became the American Coalition of Patriotic Societies, an organization opposed to unrestricted immigration, natzism, fascism, and communism.

Connections

Father:

Sir John Trevor

Wife:

Ruth Hampden