George Zaklan

Released
Date of birth:1891
Era:1920s
Support
Communism Communist Party USA Socialist Party of America
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Biography

George Zaklan was born about 1891 in Mogorić, Austria-Hungary (present-day Croatia). Immigrated to the United States in 1909.

Born c. 1891, Mogorić, Austria-Hungary (present-day Croatia). Serbian. Migrated to US 1909. Laborer. Early 1919 joined the Socialist Party, then Detroit’s Serbian Branch No. 212 of the Communist Party. Requested deportation to Russia rather than Yugoslavia, which was granted; deported March 18, 1921.

INS file 54859/700

Adapted from Kenyon Zimmer, Red Scare Deportees (kenyonzimmer.com), compiled from INS deportation case files.

Case

Charges: Administrative deportation under the wartime Immigration Acts — expelled as an alien radical (Communist Party USA member) in the First Red Scare.
In exile since: Mar 18, 1921
Sentence: Deported on March 18, 1921. No arrest date or detention span is documented, so nothing is added to the imprisonment counter. Charges as recorded: Administrative deportation under the wartime Immigration Acts — expelled as an alien radical (Communist Party USA member) in the First Red Scare. Documented in Kenyon Zimmer’s Red Scare Deportees index, drawn from INS deportation files.

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