Word: altgeld
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...biography Citizen Tom Paine (1943), Thomas Paine continues to work for the Revolution after putting out his pamphlet Common Sense, and he dies friendless after he goes on to criticize the new government his efforts have helped to establish. The American (1946) is a fictionalized biography of John P. Altgeld, a poor Illinois farm boy who became governor of his state in the 1890s. Against a storm of political pressure, Altgeld pardoned three anarchists who had been wrongly convicted of murder in 1886 during the public hysteria that followed Chicago's Haymarket Riot. Lavette, Paine and Altgeld all start...
...hurled at the police. A sergeant was killed and about 60 other policemen injured. Eight anarchists were tried in what became the most celebrated case in American labor history. Four were hanged, one committed suicide, and seven years later the remaining three were pardoned by Governor John P. Altgeld, an action that ended his career...