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==Career==
==Career==
Thurman gave a speech on February 11, 1892 advocating for the [[Democratic Party]] nomination of [[Grover Cleveland]] in the [[United States presidential election, 1892|presidential race that year]].<ref>February 12, 1892. [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1892/02/12/104118473.pdf Allen W. Thurman's Letter To The Party]. ''The New York Times''. Retrieved October 8, 2021.</ref> In the previous presidential election, his father ran as the running mate of Cleveland, though the ticket lost the general election to [[Republicans]] [[Benjamin Harrison]] and [[Levi P. Morton]].
As the president of the Ohio Board of Administration, Thurman in late September 1912 advocated [[population control]] and called for preventing what he called "imbeciles" from having children.<ref name=eugenics/> He exclaimed in his "prophecy" that the state would be "bankrupted" if it continued to care for the disabled and disadvantaged.
As the president of the Ohio Board of Administration, Thurman in late September 1912 advocated [[population control]] and called for preventing what he called "imbeciles" from having children.<ref name=eugenics/> He exclaimed in his "prophecy" that the state would be "bankrupted" if it continued to care for the disabled and disadvantaged.