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New Hampshire

Political repression plays out state by state — shaped by local institutions, prosecutors, and movements for defense. These are the documented political prisoners and cases the census holds for New Hampshire.

49Documented
1In custody
45Released

Eras of repression in New Hampshire

Where New Hampshire’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.

1960s 12 1970s 10 2020s 6 1950s 6 1980s 5 2000s 4

Documented cases

49 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.

S
Sidney Bloomfield
Sidney Bloomfield was the New England campaign manager of the Workers (Communist) Party. Alex Bail’s ballot-ac...
P
Paul Pat Morse
Released
Paul Pat Morse, a former U.S. Air Force sergeant and Vietnam veteran, took part in an antiwar protest in Ports...
N
Neil Blanton
Released
Neil Blanton appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draft...
D
Dennis Ciesielski
Released
Dennis Ciesielski appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 military-prison lists of...
H
Hugo DeGregory
Released
Hugo DeGregory was a one-time Communist candidate for lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts, jailed for civil c...
C
Court Dorsey
Released
Court Dorsey joined the Clamshell Alliance occupation at Seabrook with the Crumbs of Bliss affinity group in 1...
D
David Green
Released
David Green was jailed at Rockingham County Jail after the May1969 Parkhurst Hall occupation against ROTC and...
D
Dale Herrin
Released
Dale Herrin appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draft...
H
Hendrik Hudson
Released
Hendrik Hudson appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft an...
O
Otto Inglehardt
Released
Otto Inglehardt was from Manchester, New Hampshire. Otto Inglehardt was prosecuted at Concord, New Hampshire f...
B
Bert Kenneth Kanewske
Released
Bert Kenneth Kanewske was a Navy conscientious resister imprisoned during the Vietnam War. After release, he s...
W
William Kidd
Released
William Kidd appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft and...
A
Alexander Mackie III
Released
Alexander Mackie III was jailed after the May1969 occupation of Dartmouth College’s Parkhurst Hall protesting...
R
Ruth McKay
Released
Ruth McKay was arrested December 4, 2000 for trespass / disorderly conduct at the British Aerospace plant in N...
D
Donald E. Miller
Released
Donald E. Miller was jailed at Rockingham County Jail after the May1969 Parkhurst Hall occupation against ROTC...
H
Hattie Nestle
Released
Hattie Nestle was arrested December 4, 2000 for trespass / disorderly conduct at the British Aerospace plant i...
I
Irma Otto
Released
Irma C. Otto chaired the New Hampshire Progressive Party. When questioned in January 1954 during the state att...
T
Ted Roberg
Released
Ted Roberg was jailed after the May1969 occupation of Dartmouth College’s Parkhurst Hall protesting ROTC and t...
D
Dade Singapuri
Released
Dade Singapuri was arrested December 4, 2000 for trespass / disorderly conduct at the British Aerospace plant...
D
David Slesinger
Released
David Slesinger was a member of Appeal to Reason who opposed the Seabrook nuclear power project in New Hampshi...
F
Fred Steadman
Released
Fred Steadman was from Concord, New Hampshire, and was imprisoned under wartime speech laws. The official 1921...
B
Blueberry Stout
Blueberry Stout joined Appeal to Reason’s February 1982 anti-nuclear leafletting action at Public Service Comp...
G
Gustave H. Taubert
Released
Gustave H. Taubert, indexed by the National Archives as Gustav H. Taubert, was prosecuted at Concord, New Hamp...
M
Mary Tremblay
Released
Mary Tremblay was a member of Appeal to Reason who opposed the Seabrook nuclear power project in New Hampshire...

Institutions in New Hampshire

Prisons, jails, and detention centers in New Hampshire that appear in the census’s case files.

Hillsborough County House of Corrections (Nashua)Nashua, New Hampshire
3 cases
Valley Street House of CorrectionsManchester, New Hampshire
3 cases
Hillsborough County House of CorrectionsManchester, New Hampshire
1 case
New Hampshire State PrisonConcord, New Hampshire
1 case