Ruth Crocker

Released
Date of birth:1886
Date of death:04. 03. 1932
Age:46† Deceased
Gender:Female
Era:1910s
State:District of Columbia
Time Imprisoned:
1 Month 3 Days
Support
Women's Suffrage
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Biography

Ruth Crocker was a 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. (born - March 4, 1932)

She was arrested on September 13, 1917 and sentenced to thirty days at the Occoquan Workhouse; presumptive completion was around October 13, but no discharge record has been found.

She was jailed again for contempt in January 1919. Irwin gives the term as forty-eight hours and Stevens as three days, and the entry and release dates are unresolved, so no dates are entered for it.

Stevens describes Ruth Crocker as coming to Washington for suffrage work and later taking government employment.

Doris Stevens, Appendix 4, printed page 357.

Cases

Arrested: Sep 13, 1917
Incarcerated: Sep 13, 1917
Sentence: Thirty days at the Occoquan Workhouse, after arrest on September 13, 1917. No personal discharge record has been located, so the nominal completion date is not entered as a release.
Arrested: Jan 25, 1919
Incarcerated: Jan 25, 1919
Sentence: A contempt sentence in January 1919, recorded as forty-eight hours by Irwin and as three days by Stevens. The entry and release dates are unresolved, so no dates are entered.

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