Biography
John Douglas was from Zanesville, Ohio. John Douglas began serving a three-year prison sentence on June 26, 1918. He was convicted of sedition for "cursing the United States."
The presidential-clemency table in the 1921 Senate amnesty hearings records a sentence imposed June 27, 1918: Three years at Atlanta and costs. Commuted April 22, 1919 to expire at once. A pardon, commutation, nominal expiration or parole eligibility is not itself evidence of the day of physical release; the imposed or reduced term is not a measured time served. Duration audit: Kohn entry 82 independently states actual service beginning June 26, 1918. The sentence is three years; the clemency table records April 22, 1919 commutation. No source establishes twelve months completed or an actual release date. Unsupported exact counters are removed; no completed total is inferred from the imposed or commuted sentence.
Amnesty and Pardon for Political Prisoners, 1921 Senate hearings, printed page 181.
