Presidential Pardon Collection Presidential pardon collection #7 [decimalized]

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GLC#
GLC00230
Type
Header Record
Date
1865 - 1927
Author/Creator
Presidential Pardon Collection
Title
Presidential pardon collection #7 [decimalized]
Place Written
Washington, District of Columbia
Pagination
5 items
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War
President
Pardon
Law
Criminals and Outlaws

Showing 6 of 6 records

GLC00230.01
Collection Item
Document signed

Pardon of J. P. Shonebraker, convicted of robbing a mail coach.

09 November 1885

Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908

Convicted of robbing a mail coach and its passengers; sentenced to 5 years imprisonment. Pardoned after serving 3 years and 6 months of his prison term due to his frank confession of the crime and his returning of the stolen property, and because of...

GLC00230.01
GLC00230.02
Collection Item
Document signed

[Presidential pardon to restore Robert E. Hicks' civil rights, convicted 29 May 1903 of mailing abortion-related materials and sentenced to 10 months]

June 6, 1927

Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933

Hicks was convicted of sending "unmailable matter" (i.e., abortion materials, possibly a violation of the Comstock Law) through the mail by the U.S. District Court of Southern New York. He was sentenced to ten months in Kings County Penitentiary...

GLC00230.02
GLC00230.03
Collection Item
Document signed

Pardon of James Henry Coleman, convicted of assault and battery.

February 27, 1869

Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

Convicted of assault and battery; sentenced to 6 months imprisonment. Pardoned by recommendation of his fellow employees and close acquaintances of his high character and "upright life" and because he acted out of provocation and fear. (c/s William...

GLC00230.03
GLC00230.04
Collection Item
Document signed

[Presidential pardon of Thomas C. Billups, who had fought for the Confederacy].

29 July 1865

Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

Printed document. Countersigned by Acting Secretary of State William Hunter.

GLC00230.04
GLC00230.05
Collection Item
Document signed

[Presidential authority to the Secretary of State to affix the seal commuting death sentence of Michael Gleason].

December 5, 1867

Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

GLC00230.05
GLC00230.06
Collection Item
Document signed

[Presidential commutation for Robert E. Hicks, convicted of placing abortion related materials in the mail on 29 May 1903 and sentenced to ten months]

14 July 1915

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924

Convicted for violation of Section 3893 of the Revised Statutes (possibly in reference to the Comstock Law). While on bond Hicks fled to Europe, where he remained a fugitive until 10 July 1915, when he surrendered to the court. Commuted by Wilson...

GLC00230.06