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Robert E. Edmondson

Released
Date of birth:1872
Date of death:12. 04. 1959
Gender:Male
Era:1940s
State:New York
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Robert E. Edmondson

Biography

Robert Edward Edmondson was a journalist and publisher of antisemitic pamphlets through the Edmondson Economic Service. He participated in transnational antisemitic networks and became a prominent American isolationist propagandist. A separate New York group-libel prosecution in the 1930s preceded the Washington sedition case. He was named in the January 3, 1944 Washington indictment alleging conspiracy to undermine military loyalty under the Smith Act. The mass trial ended in a mistrial on December 7, 1944. The indictment was dismissed in December 1946; no conviction resulted in this case.

Historical photograph source

Signed historical portrait, added by A. Hammer on February 23, 2025. Find a Grave photograph 312814744.

Case

Charges: Washington sedition prosecution: conspiracy under former 18 U.S.C. § 11 to violate the Smith Act’s military-insubordination provision, former 18 U.S.C. § 9.
Sentence: No sentence imposed
Prosecutor: O. John Rogge (1944 Washington mass-sedition trial)
Judge: Edward C. Eicher; Bolitha J. Laws (dismissal proceedings)
Indicted: January 3, 1944 superseding indictment naming thirty defendants.
Convicted: No