Evan Welling Thomas

Released
Date of birth:1890
Date of death:15. 12. 1974
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
State:New York
Time Imprisoned:
1 Year 1 Month
Support
Anti-War Socialism Anarchism
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Biography

Evan Welling Thomas was the younger brother of Norman Thomas; Princeton seminary student studying in Edinburgh when the U.S. entered WWI; returned home and refused induction as an absolutist conscientious objector. After leading a hunger strike at Fort Riley, Kansas in August 1918, court-martialed, sentenced to life imprisonment, transferred to Fort Leavenworth, where held in solitary confinement and chained handcuffed to his cell door for 14 days. Sentence commuted; released 1919. Later trained as a physician, chaired the War Resisters League for many years.

Case

United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth
Charges: Court-martialed under the Articles of War.
Arrested: Aug 14, 1918
Incarcerated: Aug 14, 1918
Released: Sep 14, 1919
Sentence: Life imprisonment (commuted)
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: Kansas

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