Ivan Sussoyeff

AKA: Ivan Sussoff
Released
Full name:Ivan W. Sussoyeff
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
State:Arizona
Time Imprisoned:
1 Year 3 Months 0 Days
Support
Anti-War Conscientious Objection
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Biography

Ivan W. Sussoyeff (also rendered Sussoff) was one of the six Molokan absolutists from Glendale, Arizona who refused the WWI draft. He left a documented account of being tortured at Fort Riley — "they dragged me like an animal with a rope around my neck." Court-martialed and imprisoned at Fort Leavenworth on a fifteen-year sentence, he was amnestied by President Wilson in April 1919.

Case

United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth
Charges: Refusal to register or serve under the draft (World War I Molokan conscientious objector)
Incarcerated: 1918
Released: April 1919
Sentence: Fifteen years; held at Fort Riley and Fort Leavenworth; amnestied in April 1919. Verdict as recorded: Yes — court-martialed; sentenced to fifteen years.
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: Kansas

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