Biography
Leonardo Vásquez was one of the Mexican revolutionaries convicted in the 1913 Rangel-Cline case in Texas, captured with the party crossing to join the Mexican Revolution and imprisoned at the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville until the group's 1926 pardon.
The June 1925 labor-press political-prisoner birthday notice lists him at the Senior Farm, Dewalt, Brazoria County, Texas — a state prison farm, alongside his Rangel-Cline co-defendant Jesus Gonzales — with a June 30 birthday (no birth year is given).
The International Labor Defense holiday roster in the December 29, 1925 Daily Worker lists this prisoner, printed as Leonardo Vasquez, at Brazoria County Farm Dewalt Texas. Its printed identifier is 37245; 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
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.
The February 26, 1924 Daily Worker political-prisoner roster individually prints Leonardo Vasquez with historical prisoner number 37245. The entry appears under Senior State Farm, Hobby, Texas. This is a contemporary institutional identifier, not a federal BOP register number. No admission or release date, individual sentence length, actual duration, organizational membership or present status is inferred.
The October 1926 Labor Defender individually captions Leonard L. Vasquez in the Rangel-Cline case and states that he received a twenty-five-year sentence. The original portrait and caption are distinct from the group's actual 1926 pardon and release. Twenty-five years is the imposed term, not the time served.
Printed Leonardo Vasquez, the list identifies number 37245 at Brazoria County Farm, Dewalt, and gives July 3. This conflicts with an earlier June 30 birthday notice; neither is silently substituted for established identity data. This documents the source’s contemporary custody context without establishing a new admission, precise release or completed-service total.
