Biography
Jesús M. Rangel was a Mexican revolutionary and Partido Liberal Mexicano militant who, in 1913, led a small party of revolutionaries crossing Texas to join the fight against the Díaz-era regime in Mexico. Captured in a gunfight with Texas authorities in which a deputy sheriff was killed, he and his comrades became the defendants in the Rangel-Cline case, a cause célèbre of the labor and radical left. Held at the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville, he was freed in 1926 when Governor Miriam Ferguson pardoned the group. (Recorded as Jesús María Rangel)
The International Labor Defense holiday roster in the December 29, 1925 Daily Worker lists this prisoner, printed as J. M. Rangel, at Huntsville Texas. Its printed identifier is Box32; this is a prison number or mailing designation, not a year or a custody date. This documents confinement at the roster’s reporting time, without establishing an admission, transfer, release, new conviction or complete duration. Existing independently sourced custody chronology remains separate. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1925/1925-ny/v02b-n297-NYE-dec-29-1925-DW-LOC.pdf#page=5
The February 1926 defense appeal says Cline, Rangel and four other men remained in the Texas penitentiary while the Fergusons resisted pardon requests from labor and farmer organizations. President Calles’s offer to receive them in Mexico was conditional on future release. The rounded thirteen years does not create an exact day total, nor does the offer establish release or an exile endpoint. The separately documented later August 1926 release is preserved. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1926/1926-ny/v03-n028-NY-feb-13-1926-DW-LOC.pdf#page=3
The August 24, 1926 Daily Worker’s defense account describes Rangel as an organizer stationed at Waco and says the Carrizo Springs expedition surrendered when it encountered the US flag. This differs from the gunfight account already recorded and is retained as an attributed source discrepancy, not a judicial exoneration. The article’s rounded thirteen years and collective sentence wording do not replace individual sentence or custody fields. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1926/1926-ny/v03-n190-NY-aug-24-1926-DW-LOC.pdf#page=1
1920s custody review: Released in August1926 following a full pardon by Governor MiriamA.Ferguson. The August24,1926 DailyWorker names all six freed men, including this prisoner. An August21dispatch separately discusses the pardon and threatened rearrest. The evidence supports August, not an exact physical-release day; neither the publication day nor the pardon announcement is used as that day.
Sources: Daily Worker, August24,1926, pages1-2; Devine News, August26,1926, page1, including August21dispatch. Existing portraits are retained; no exact admission date is inferred.
