1. Elmer Stewart Rhodes III was born on 1966 and is an American former attorney and founder of the Oath Keepers, an American far-right anti-government militia.
21 Facts About Stewart Rhodes
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Elmer Stewart Rhodes III was born in 1966 in Fresno, California.
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Stewart Rhodes's father was a US Marine, and his mother worked on a farm.
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Stewart Rhodes wrote about his father abandoning his mother and him when he was three years old and that he grew up with his mother and her Mexican-American family.
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Stewart Rhodes attended high school in Las Vegas, then joined the US Army and was honorably discharged after seven months, the result of a spinal injury sustained during airborne school.
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Stewart Rhodes volunteered for Paul's 2008 presidential campaign and later complained that political opponents of Paul linked Paul to hate groups and racists.
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In 2001, at 35, Stewart Rhodes enrolled in Yale Law School.
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On December 8,2015, Stewart Rhodes was disbarred by the Montana Supreme Court for conduct violating the Montana Rules of Professional Conduct after refusing to respond to two bar grievances filed against him in the federal district court of Arizona.
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Stewart Rhodes has collaborated with the states' rights groups the Tenth Amendment Center and the Northwest Patriots.
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Stewart Rhodes is reported to have taken inspiration from the notion that Adolf Hitler could have been stopped if German soldiers and police had refused to follow orders.
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For two months after the 2020 United States presidential election, Stewart Rhodes encouraged his supporters to reject Joe Biden as the incoming president.
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Stewart Rhodes spoke of a need to take up weapons to prevent Biden's inauguration and launched a campaign to persuade then-President Donald Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 and deploy the military and the Oath Keepers as a militia.
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On December 12,2020, Stewart Rhodes spoke at a pro-Trump rally in Washington, DC, along with speakers including Michael Flynn, Sebastian Gorka, Alex Jones, podcaster David Harris Jr.
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Stewart Rhodes called on Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 and warned that not doing so would lead to a "much more bloody war".
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En route to DC, Stewart Rhodes personally spent US$20,000 to purchase "a small arsenal".
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On January 6,2021, Stewart Rhodes entered "restricted Capitol grounds", where he directed Oath Keepers members via telephone and text, telling them which positions to take around the building.
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On November 29,2022, after a nine-week trial, along with Kelly Meggs, Stewart Rhodes was convicted of seditious conspiracy and evidence tampering regarding the January 6,2021, United States Capitol attack.
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On May 25,2023, Stewart Rhodes received an 18-year sentence, and Meggs received a 12-year sentence.
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When released, Stewart Rhodes served his sentence at Federal Correctional Institution, Cumberland.
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Stewart Rhodes married Tasha Adams in 1994 after meeting her a few years earlier in Las Vegas.
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Adams and Stewart Rhodes have six children, including Dakota Adams, their eldest son, who uses his mother's maiden name; Sequoia Adams; and Sedona Adams.