He also widely promoted the 26-inch-tall "General Tom Thumb".  
John Beckman contrasted this man with Thomas Morton, blaming him for changing American culture to accepting a purely passive form of fun.  This publisher of the Herald of Freedom was thrice arrested for libel.  He introduced the birth control law overturned in Griswold v. Connecticut.  This man claimed he had been duped after an autopsy revealed that Joice Heth was not the (*) 161-year-old nurse of George Washington.  He toured the lecture circuit delivering the speech, "The Science of Money Making and the Philosophy of Humbug".  A hat owned by Ulysses S. Grant was once displayed in a New York museum he bought from the Scudder family.  This man made an extremely tall woman named Anna Swan famous.  He also widely promoted the 26-inch-tall "General Tom Thumb".  For 10 points, name this man who, with James A. Bailey, founded a travelling circus company.
John Beckman contrasted this man with Thomas Morton, blaming him for changing American culture to accepting a purely passive form of fun.  
P. T. Barnum [or Phineas Taylor Barnum] 