William Baker

Released
Date of birth:07. 12. 1888
Date of death:28. 12. 1964
Age:76† Deceased
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
Inmate Number:#35713
State:California
Time Imprisoned:
1 Year
Support
Anti-War Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
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Biography

William Baker was an IWW member from Los Angeles. William Baker received a one- to fourteen-year prison sentence, which he served in San Quentin from December 1921 to March 11, 1925.

The February 26, 1924 Daily Worker political-prisoner roster individually prints Wm. Baker with historical prisoner number 35713. The entry appears under San Quentin State Prison, California. 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.

Daily Worker, February 26, 1924, original printed page 4.

Case

San Quentin State Prison
Charges: Espionage Act of 1917 and/or the Sedition Act of 1918
Incarcerated: December 1921
Released: Mar 11, 1925
Sentence: One to fourteen years imposed
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: California

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