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Leo Frank clemency file

Application for Executive Clemency and supporting documentation filed by Leo Frank in 1915.

More About This Collection

Date of Original
1915-04-22/1915-06-21

Subject
Trials (Murder)--Georgia--Atlanta
Frank, Leo, 1884-1915--Trials, litigation, etc.
Georgia. Prison Commission
Slaton, John M.

Location
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798

Medium
administrative records
correspondence
letters (correspondence)
memorandums
petitions
records (documents)
texts (document genres)

Type
Text

Description
The file includes documentation of Leo Frank's appeal for clemency to the Georgia Prison Authority and to Georgia Governor John M. Slaton in April, May, and June of 1915. Frank, the Jewish superintendent at the National pencil factory, was found guilty of the murder of Mary Phagan in 1913. After several appeals from June of 1914 to April of 1915, Frank's sentence was upheld. Frank then appealed for clemency. Correspondents include A. W. Cozart, William H. Felton, Thomas W. Loyless (Augusta Chronicle), Andrew J. Cobb, A. M. Hughlett, Russell K. Smith, a group of Atlanta Ministers,T. B. Rice, J. L. Kinineyham, Hugh M. Dorsey, Hannah G. Franklin, A. G. Powell, and T. L. Gantt. The file also contains Frank's application, the recommendations of the Prison Commission and of T. E. Patterson, and Slaton's decision to grant Executive Clemency.

Metadata URL
http://cdm.georgiaarchives.org:2011/cdm/landingpage/collection/frankclem

Language
eng

Holding Institution
Georgia Archives

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