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Thomas Dutton

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:Michigan
Support
Civil Liberties
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Biography

Thomas Dutton was a 70-year-old Detroit carpenter and railwayman, in the United States about 46 years, ordered deported to England in 1955 on the testimony of two paid informers that he had attended Communist meetings around 1929. The deportation was temporarily stayed under public pressure.

Case

Charges: Deportation under the McCarran-Walter Act — on informers' claims of 1929 Communist meetings
Sentence: Faced deportation to England after 46 years in the U.S.
Convicted: Ordered deported 1955; deportation temporarily stayed