Everett P. Wheeler

Everett Pepperrell Wheeler (1840, New York City – 1925) was an American lawyer, author, politician, and anti-suffrage activist.

He graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1856 and from Harvard in 1859, obtaining an LL.B.

In 1894, he was an unsuccessful candidate for governor of New York, nominated by a split faction of the Democratic Party who were barred from the state convention, and opposed the nomination of ex-governor David B. Hill.

Wheeler drafted the bill which created in 1897 the consolidated City of New York, incorporating the boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island.

Wheeler headed anti-suffrage organizations in the 1910s, such as the Men's Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage[1] He claimed his organizations produced a hundred thousand propaganda tracts against legal voting for women.