Thaddeus B. Wakeman, also known as T.B. Wakeman, was an American attorney, politician, editor and political philosopher. He graduated from Princeton University. Generally ascribed as a liberal freethought philosopher, he was a speaker at the 1878 Freethinkers' Convention at Watkins, New York.The Proceedings and Addresses at the Freethinkers' Convention held at Watkins, N.Y., pp. 373-381. He served as president of the National Liberal League, ran unsuccessfully for Attorney General in the New York state election of 1887, and was editor of the liberal paper Man.Princeton Alumni Weekly, Vol. III, no. 20, p. 300 He was also the head of the Liberal University of Oregon, later relocated to Kansas City, Missouri.Young, Ellen. John Emerson Roberts: Kansas City's "Up-To-Date" Freethought Preacher (XLibris Corporation, 2011), pp. 129-130.
His daughter Emily Wakeman Hartley founded and managed the Stamford Theatre in Stamford, Connecticut.A. P., "A Woman Who Financed and Built a Theatre" The Theatre (September 1914): 113-114, 131-132.
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