# Clement Clarke Moore

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clement-clarke-moore/165308>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 30, 2003, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clement-clarke-moore/165308 "2003-03-30T23:34:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clement-clarke-moore/165308/1 "2003-03-30T23:34:02Z")

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Okay, okay!! My friend has told me the truth is out!  
Clement Clarke Moore, the inventor of Santa Claus was a fraud who plagerize some other blokes poem when he was an newspaper editor. By diliberately omitting this blokes name, he let others believe that he wrote the bloody poem, “A Visit from St. Nick”!! What’s the truth Cec!!

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**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clement-clarke-moore/165308/2 "2003-03-31T00:03:28Z")

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Here’s what snopes and Straight Dope have to say:  
[http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/donner.htm](http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/donner.htm)

This thread contains a link to the original report.  
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=49525](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=49525)

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**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clement-clarke-moore/165308/3 "2003-03-31T00:08:34Z")

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Here’s what snopes and Straight Dope have to say:  
[http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/donner.htm](http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/donner.htm)

This thread contains a link to the original report.  
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=49525](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=49525)