Biography
William Pennock was president of the Washington Pension Union and a Progressive Party figure prosecuted under the Smith Act during the McCarthy era. He was arrested in September 1952 and held on $10,000 bail.
William J. Pennock was the long-time president of the Washington Pension Union and a defendant in the 1953 Seattle Smith Act trial, a prosecution that was part of the government's drive against the union. He died while the trial was still in progress.
