# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/anthony-comstock
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:04:43.085Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/anthony-comstock"
name: "Anthony Comstock"
slug: "anthony-comstock"
description: "Anthony Comstock was an American anti-vice activist, United States Postal Inspector, and secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice (NYSSV), who was dedicated to upholding Christian morality. He opposed obscene literature, abortion, contraception, masturbation, gambling, prostitution, and patent medicine. The terms comstockery and comstockism refer to his extensive censorship campaign of materials that he considered obscene, including birth control advertised or sent by mail. He used his positions in the U.S. Postal Service and the NYSSV to make numerous arrests for obscenity and gambling. Besides these pursuits, he was also involved in efforts to suppress fraudulent banking schemes, mail swindles, and medical quackery."
tagline: "American morals critic (1844–1915)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Anthony_Comstock.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1844-03-07"
deathDate: "1915-09-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump