George Gibbs

Released
Date of birth:1901
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1940s
State:Illinois
Time Imprisoned:
1 Month 7 Days
Support
Communism Communist Party USA
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Biography

George Gibbs was a Communist Party petition solicitor who was jailed at Lewistown (Fulton County), Illinois in July 1940 and charged with two counts of 'treason' under the state's revived criminal-syndicalism law for canvassing Communist ballot-petition signatures — part of a sweep of over a hundred Communists across nineteen Illinois counties, with a combined $80,000 bail and penalties of one to ten years.

Case

Fulton County Jail
Charges: "Treason" / criminal syndicalism (Illinois).
Arrested: Jul 22, 1940
Incarcerated: Jul 22, 1940
Released: Aug 29, 1940
Prosecutor: Sherwin Deutch, State Attorney; Lawrence McMunn, Assistant State Attorney.
Institution State: Georgia

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