Committee of Fifty

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Committee of Fifty could refer to one of the following:

• Committee of Fifty - met in New York City in 1829 and advocated redistribution of property between the poor and rich

• Committee of Fifty - was formed in 1893 by scholars to investigate problems associated with the use and abuse of alcoholic beverages

• Committee of Fifty - was called into existence by Mayor Eugene Schmitz during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake