1. Thomas Joseph Mooney was an American political activist and labor leader, who was convicted with Warren K Billings of the San Francisco Preparedness Day Bombing of 1916.
16 Facts About Thomas Mooney
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Thomas Mooney served 22 years in prison before being pardoned in 1939.
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The son of Irish immigrants, Thomas Mooney was born in Chicago, Illinois on December 8,1882.
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Bernard Thomas Mooney died of "miner's con" at the age of 36, when Tom, the eldest of three surviving children, was ten years old.
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Thomas Mooney held many jobs as an industrial worker before developing a career as a labor leader and socialist activist.
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Thomas Mooney became a member of the militant industrial union the Industrial Workers of the World.
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In 1910, Thomas Mooney won a trip to the Second International Conference in Copenhagen by selling a huge number of subscriptions to the socialist Wilshire Magazine.
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In 1918, Thomas Mooney's sentence was changed to life imprisonment, the same as Billings.
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Thomas Mooney quickly became one of the most famous political prisoners in America.
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Thomas Mooney filed a writ of habeas corpus which was heard by the United States Supreme Court in 1937.
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Thomas Mooney was pardoned in 1939 by liberal Democratic governor Culbert Olson.
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Thomas Mooney was old from years in prison, sick with ulcers and jaundice.
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Thomas Mooney then campaigned for Billings's release although the two men had become estranged.
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Thomas Mooney drew a full house at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
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Thomas Mooney died at Saint Luke's Hospital in San Francisco on March 6,1942.
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Thomas Mooney is interred at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in Colma, California.