Biography
Josephine Bennett was a Hartford, Connecticut member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned during the 1917-1919 campaign to picket the Wilson White House for woman suffrage. (Recorded as Josephine Beach Day Bennett; May 4, 1880 - June 12, 1961; listed in the contemporary records as Mrs. M. Toscan Bennett)
She was arrested on January 8, 1919 during a watchfire protest and sentenced the same day to five days in the District Jail, where she took part in the hunger strike. Sources describe her as serving five days; no discharge record has been found, so the nominal release date of January 13 is not entered.
Calculated release date for the stay beginning January 8, 1919: January 13, 1919, adding the recorded completed custody duration of 5 days with elapsed-calendar-day counting. This is a calculated date from the recorded admission and duration, not a separately documented physical-discharge date.
Calculated release date
Calculated release date for the stay beginning January 8, 1919: January 13, 1919, adding the recorded completed custody duration of 5 days with elapsed-calendar-day counting. This is a calculated date from the recorded admission and duration, not a separately documented physical-discharge date.
Stevens’s Mrs. M. Toscan Bennett entry describes membership in the National Woman’s Party’s National Advisory Council and service as its Connecticut state treasurer.
