Biography
James A. Peterson was from Minneapolis, Minnesota. James A. Peterson began serving a four-year prison sentence in Leavenworth Penitentiary on April 19, 1918. A Republican candidate for governor, he was arrested for making anti-war speeches during the election campaign.
The Minnesota row records a four-year sentence under section 3, Title I of the Espionage Act. The table separately identifies sentencing, nominal judgment and circumstances of execution; no new jail admission or actual-service counter is inferred. No source in the current raw body (which is empty) establishes the inherited actual-service override. That override is cleared; the nominal sentence is retained and actual total custody remains unknown. The inherited April 19, 1918 admission is distinct from the April 13 sentencing date and is expressly stated in the old description, so it is preserved pending original admission-source review rather than assumed to be sentencing arithmetic.
1921 Senate amnesty hearings, printed page 93 (PDF page 100).
The inherited death date predates the individually documented 1918 prosecution and is inconsistent with this prisoner’s chronology. That unsupported death date and the age derived from it have been removed pending biographical identity verification. The separately stored birth date remains an unresolved external research lead; the Senate table does not establish a birth date.
