biography
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Noah, Mordecai Manuel
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| male
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| lived:
| (1785–1851)
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| biography:
| Playwright and journalist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He started out as a reporter in Harrisburg, PA and wrote several plays during 1802–22. In 1813 he was sent to Tunis as consul to negotiate for the release of Americans held by pirates there. In 1817 he became editor of the National Advocate in New York. In 1825 he unsuccessfully tried to found a Jewish refuge on an island in the Niagara R. He was sheriff of New York (1822), surveyor of the Port of New York (1829), and an associate judge of the New York court of sessions (1841), and founded and edited several New York newspapers. |
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