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Wheeler P. Bloodgood
1871–1930
A Milwaukee lawyer with a strong reform streak, he became known for pushing changes to antitrust law in the Progressive Era. His career linked business law, public policy, and civic-minded debate at a time when the rules of American industry were being rethought.
1 Audiobook
The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt
by Oliver E. Remey, Wheeler P. Bloodgood, Henry F. (Henry Frederick) Cochems
About the author
Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1871, Wheeler Peckham Bloodgood studied at Harvard before building his legal career in his home city. He came from a notable Wisconsin family and developed a reputation as a thoughtful attorney with a deep interest in public affairs.
Bloodgood is best remembered for his work on antitrust reform. Rather than treating competition law as a narrow technical subject, he was involved in broader efforts to rethink how large corporations should be regulated in the early 20th century. Sources from the period and later reference works describe him as active in reform discussions tied to national civic and Progressive-era causes.
He died in 1930. Although he is less widely remembered today than some public figures of his time, his career reflects an important moment in American legal history, when lawyers, reformers, and policymakers were trying to define fair rules for a rapidly changing economy.