J. T. Doran

J. T. Doran, an electrician from Seattle, Washington, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago, sentenced to five years in prison and fined $30,000. He served in Leavenworth Penitentiary from September 1917 to March 1918, from September 1918 to October 1919 and from April 1921 to November 17, 1923. The Department of Justice considered Doran "the most famous of IWW speakers." Doran was convicted despite the fact that the "record" in his case contained "no letter or article proven to have been written by him which referred disparagingly to the United States." There was "no proof that he made any reference to conscription, registration or the military" in any publication.