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Ruth Crocker

Released
Date of birth:1886
Date of death:04. 03. 1932
Gender:Female
Era:1910s
State:District of Columbia
Time Imprisoned:
1 Month 3 Days
Support
Women's suffrage
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Biography

Ruth Crocker 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. (born about 1886 - March 4, 1932)

She was arrested on September 13, 1917 and sentenced to thirty days at the Occoquan Workhouse; presumptive completion was around October 13, but no discharge record has been found.

She was jailed again for contempt in January 1919. Irwin gives the term as forty-eight hours and Stevens as three days, and the entry and release dates are unresolved, so no dates are entered for it.

Cases

Arrested: Sep 13, 1917
Incarcerated: Sep 13, 1917
Sentence: Thirty days at the Occoquan Workhouse, after arrest on September 13, 1917. No personal discharge record has been located, so the nominal completion date is not entered as a release.
Arrested: Jan 25, 1919
Incarcerated: Jan 25, 1919
Sentence: A contempt sentence in January 1919, recorded as forty-eight hours by Irwin and as three days by Stevens. The entry and release dates are unresolved, so no dates are entered.