Mordecai Manuel Noah, American journalist and diplomat (born 1755)

Mordecai Manuel Noah

American diplomat and utopian writer (1785–1851)

Mordecai Manuel Noah was an American sheriff, playwright, diplomat, journalist, and utopian. He was born in a family of mixed Ashkenazi and Portuguese Sephardic ancestry and was the grandson of Jonas Phillips. He was the most important Jewish lay leader in New York in the early…