Herbert Putnam (20 September 1861 – 14 August 1955) was an American lawyer, publisher, and librarian. He was the eighth (and also the longest-serving) Librarian of the United States Congress from 1899 to 1939.
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“Even American women are not felt to be persons in the same sense as the male immigrants among the Hungarians, Poles, Russian Jews,not to speak of Italians, Germans, and the masters of all of usthe Irish!”
—Mary Putnam Jacobi (18421906)