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Political repression plays out state by state — shaped by local institutions, prosecutors, and movements for defense. These are the documented political prisoners and cases the census holds for Montana.
22Documented
0In custody
22Released
Eras of repression in Montana
Where Montana’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1910s 17
1900s 2
2010s 1
1950s 1
1930s 1
Documented cases
22 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
Forrest Edwards
Released
Forrest Edwards, from Louistown, Montana, was secretary-treasurer of the Agricultural Workers Industrial Union...
Leonard Higgins
Released
Retired state IT manager and Valve Turner who shut off the Enbridge Express tar sands pipeline in Chouteau Cou...
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Albert Brooks
Released
Albert Brooks was born on September 10, 1888 in Illinois; the precise locality and his death are unresolved....
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Pete Ervik
Released
Pete Ervik, of Missoula, Montana, began serving a two- to four-year prison sentence on April 16, 1918.
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Charley P. Graber
Released
Charley P. Graber was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Montana imprisoned during World War I. Court-mar...
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John Harderson
Released
John Harderson was a Jehovah's Witnesses conscientious objector from Montana imprisoned during World War I. Co...
J
John Harrington
Released
John Harrington, of Lewistown, Montana, began serving a prison sentence on April 20, 1918 for obstructing the...
J
John Cyril Hellman
Released
John Cyril Hellman was a Montana Communist and former state director of the Progressive Party, arrested by FBI...
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David Holmquist
Released
David Holmquist was a conscientious objector from Montana imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for r...
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Jack Jones
Released
Jack Jones was an Industrial Workers of the World (Wobbly) organizer and, at the time, the husband of Elizabet...
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H. Klabo
Released
H. Klabo appears in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecutions and Mo...
D
David Lemke
Released
David Lemke was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Montana imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed...
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Frank Little
Released
Frank Little was arrested on September 29, 1909 in the Missoula IWW street-speaking free-speech fight in Monta...
A
Albert E. Maken
Released
Albert E. Maken, of Townsend, Montana, was convicted of obstructing recruitmentand began serving a four- to ei...
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Herbert Mansolf
Released
Herbert Mansolf, of Missoula, Montana, was arrested on May 26, 1918 for counselling draft evasion. He was sent...
A
August A. Miller
Released
August A. Miller, from Deer Lodge, Montana, was arrested in April 1919 for "alleged seditious utterances." He...
J
John Ruck
Released
John Ruck, from Helena, Montana, began serving a three- to six-year prison sentence on April 16, 1918.
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E. V. Starr
Released
E. V. Starr, from Montana, was convicted for refusing to kiss the flag and sentenced to ten to twenty years in...
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Simon Swanson
Released
Simon Swanson was one of the Westby, North Dakota / Plentywood, Montana farmers of the United Farmers' League...
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Jake Edd Tschetter
Released
Jake Edd Tschetter was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Montana imprisoned during World War I. Court-ma...
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Paul C. Villiard
Released
Paul C. Villiard was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Montana imprisoned during World War I. Court-mart...
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Glen H. Witherbee
Released
Glen H. Witherbee was a conscientious objector from Montana imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
Institutions in Montana
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Montana that appear in the census’s case files.
Montana State PrisonDeer Lodge, Montana
1 case