Edward Holton James was an American socialist. He was the nephew

Nephew

Nephew is a son of one's sibling or sibling-in-law, and niece is a daughter of one's sibling or a sibling-in-law. Sons and daughters of siblings-in-law are also informally referred to as nephews and nieces respectively, even though there is no blood relation...

 of philosopher William James

William James

William James was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher who was trained as a physician. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and on the philosophy of pragmatism...

 and novelist Henry James

Henry James

Henry James, OM was an American-born writer, regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. He was the son of Henry James, Sr., a clergyman, and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James....

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Biography

He was born in 1873. He attended Harvard and graduated in 1896. He was arrested in 1915. He attended a Sacco & Vanzetti meeting at the Boston Common

Boston Common

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during the trial, he was "smartly dressed, neatly barbered, looking more like a distinguished professor emeritus than a boisterous radical nephew". He assaulted a police officer and was arrested.

He died in 1954.