Ignatz Mizher

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
State:New York
Time Imprisoned:
1 Year
Support
Communism Anti-War Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
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Biography

Ignatz Mizher was a member of the Communist Party from New York City. Ignatz Mizher served a sentence in Sing Sing and was later pardoned by Governor Smith.

1920s custody-date review: Release after Governor Smith's pardon is documented in February 1923; the exact day remains unresolved. This was a New York State criminal-anarchy case, not the generic federal Espionage/Sedition charge previously displayed. The study reports immediate immigration rearrest; this endpoint is state-prison release, not freedom from all custody. No immigration-release day is inferred.

Sources: Laura Weinrib, Journal of Free Speech Law (2025), page 706 and note 140. Photographs and initial arrest dates remain unresolved.

Case

Charges: New York State criminal-anarchy prosecution.
Sentenced: November 1919
Incarcerated: November 1919
Released: February 1923
Sentence: Five to ten years, imposed in Cortland, New York in November 1919. The contemporary National Defense Committee account says he had remained in prison since then. Exact admission and sentencing days are unverified.

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