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Having a prestigious academic career—teaching at Harvard, being involved with the Carnegie Institution, and appointing him as director of a mental health laboratory in New Jersey—he epitomized the high-status eugenic scientists of his era. He actively contributed to eugenic legislation, drafting laws and working on "psychiatric assessments" aimed at segregating and sterilizing those deemed genetically inferior.
In 1911, working at the behest of Wilson during his governorship, he helped draft a eugenics bill in New Jersey. Although this particular law was struck down by the New Jersey Supreme Court, similar laws spread across states, and his influence persisted.