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Margaret Wood Kessler

Released
Full name:Margaret Kessler
Date of birth:1880
Gender:Female
Era:1910s
State:District of Columbia
Support
Women's suffrage
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Biography

Margaret Wood Kessler was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned during the 1917-1919 campaign to picket the Wilson White House for woman suffrage. Doris Stevens recorded her term as: September 1917: 30 days at Occoquan.

Stevens records an imposed thirty-day September 1917 sentence, not an explicit completed actual term. The documented-day override merely repeats the nominal term without separate support in this source or the included raw narrative and is removed. Existing dates are preserved.

Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom, Appendix 4, PDF pages 10.

Case

Arrested: September 1917
Sentenced: Sep 25, 1917
Incarcerated: September 1917
Sentence: September 1917: 30 days at Occoquan.