STOKES, James Graham Phelps, Ameri can Socialist: b. New York, 18 March 1872. He was son of Anson Phelps Stokes and was graduated (1892) at Sheffield Scientific School (Yale). In 1896 he received the degree M.D., at the College of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia), when he took up graduate work in the School of Political Science, Columbia (1896-97). In 1905 he married Rose Harriet Pastor, prominent Socialist leader and lecturer He spent much time on the governing boards corporations in which his family estate interested. In very numerous philanthropic institutions, such as the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, Uni versity Settlement Society, Federation of Chris tian Churches and Christian Workers, Peoples' Institute, Tuskegee Normal and Industrial In stitute, etc., he has done much practical work. From 1906 he has devoted his activities largely to the Socialist cause, being president of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society (1907-17), presidential elector on Populist ticket (1904), vice-chairman, Municipal Ownership League, its candidate for president of board of aldermen, New York (1905). In 1911 he was member of
the State executive committee of the Socialist party of Connecticut; candidate for New York assembly (1908) ; candidate for mayor of Stamford, Conn. (1912). In 1917 he withdrew from the Socialist party, together with numerous other leaders when the party views were pacifist and antagonistic to the American government and its war policy. In the latter year he became vice-chairman of the Nationalist party, secre tary-treasurer of the Social Democratic League of America, etc. He enlisted (1917) in the Veteran Corps of Artillery, New York, and was transferred to Ninth Coast Artillery, New York.