Portrait of Madison Grant

Madison Grant

American lawyer, eugenicist, and conservationist

Lived
1865–1937

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About Madison Grant

Madison Grant was an American lawyer, zoologist, anthropologist, and writer known for his work as a conservationist, eugenicist, and as an advocate of scientific racism. Grant is less noted for his far-reaching achievements in conservation than for his pseudoscientific advocacy of Nordicism, a form of racism which views the "Nordic race" as superior.

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