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Name: John Peter Altgeld
Birth Date: December 30, 1847
Death Date: 1902
Place of Birth: Nieder-Selters, Germany
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: governor, jurist, reformer

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American reformer and jurist and a governor of Illinois, John Peter Altgeld (1847-1902) became nationally prominent when, in 1893, he pardoned three anarchists convicted of the Haymarket bombing and, in 1894, was critical of the Federal government's...


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John Peter Altgeld (December 30 1847 - March 12 1902) was the governor of the U.S. state of Illinois from 1893 until 1897. He was the first Democratic governor of that state since the 1850s. A leading figure of the Progressive Era movement, Altgeld...


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Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society
John Peter Altgeld, the Eagle Remembered
01/01/2003: 603 words, approx. 2 pages
John Peter Altgeld, the Eagle Remembered. By Northern Illinois University Media Services and Department of Communication (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2001. 59 minutes). Few other Illinois personalities were as closely identified with the central events of their era as Governor John Peter...


 

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