Irwin St. John Tucker

AKA: Friar Tuck
Released
Date of birth:10. 01. 1886
Date of death:08. 01. 1982
Age:95† Deceased
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
State:Illinois
Support
Anti-War Socialism Anarchism Socialist Party of America
Irwin St. John Tucker

Biography

Irwin St. John Tucker was born in Mobile, Alabama; Episcopal priest (ordained 1913, General Theological Seminary), Socialist Party member from 1912. Director of the SP National Office Literature Department in summer 1917, where he authored the antiwar pamphlet "The Price We Pay." Co-defendant in the Chicago Trial of Five. Conviction vacated by Berger v. US (1921). Served as priest-in-charge of St. Stephen's, Chicago (1927–1954); reinstated as Episcopal priest in 1970 at age 84.

Custody correction: The February 20, 1919 Roseburg Review dates sentencing. The February 27 Wagoner County Democrat confirms bail furnished for all five. Sentencing is not prison admission; the unsupported 711-day custody span is removed.

Case

Charges: Conspiracy to violate Espionage Act §§3, 4 — pamphlet "The Price We Pay".
Arrested: Mar 8, 1918
Sentenced: Feb 20, 1919
Released: February 1919
Sentence: Twenty-year sentence, February 20, 1919; execution stayed and bail furnished in February 1919 pending appeal. The existing January 1921 endpoint was not a prison release. No prison admission or continuous custody duration is established.
Judge: Hon. Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Convicted: Yes

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