William Sanger

For the New York City physician, see William Wallace Sanger. For the New York politician, see William Cary Sanger.

William Sanger (November 12, 1873 – July 23, 1961) was a German-born and American-educated architect and artist. An activist in the radical movement during the first decades of the 20th century, Sanger is best known as the first husband of birth control activist Margaret Sanger and as the defendant in a high-profile 1915 New York obscenity trial for distributing a birth control information pamphlet.

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