Robert Dale Owen
Robert Dale Owen ( born November 7, 1801 in Glasgow, Scotland, † June 24, 1877 in Lake George, New York, United States ) was an American politician, diplomat and social reformer.
Life
Robert Dale Owen was the son of the British entrepreneur and social politician Robert Owen. He emigrated in 1825 to the United States. In the years 1828 to 1832 Owen worked as a magazine editor in New York. Owens book Moral Physiology ( published in 1830 or 1832) was the first book published in the United States, which advocated birth control.
Owen sat as a leading member of the Democratic Party for the abolition of slavery. After a long career as a deputy in the House of Representatives of Indiana, he was elected in 1842 for the first district of Indiana in the House of Representatives of the United States. In Washington, D.C. Owen designed the law establishing the Smithsonian Institution. In the years 1853 to 1858 Owen represented the United States as Ambassador in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
The town of Dale, Indiana was named after Robert Dale Owen.
Works (selection)
- Moral philosophy or a letter and plain treatise on the population question. Thomson Gale Publishers, Farmington Hills, Mich. 2006 ( online text of the edition London 1844)
- Threading My Way. Twenty -Seven Years of Autobiography. Kelley Books, New York, 1967 ( reprint of London 1874)
- Footfalls on the boundary of another world; Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1860 https://archive.org/stream/foot00fallsonboundowenrich # page / 1 /