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Leo Frank

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Photograph of Leo Frank, the manager of the National Pencil Company in Atlanta, Georgia. Facing forward, he wears a suit and tie and small round glasses. Frank was convicted of the murder of factory worker Mary Phagan in 1913. Frank was lynched by a mob in Marietta in 1915 after Governor John M. Slaton commuted Frank's death sentence to life imprisonment.
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  1. Antisemitism
  2. Atlanta
  3. Executives
  4. Frank, Leo, 1884 1915
  5. Georgia
  6. Jews
  7. Lynching
  8. Murder Victims
  9. Victims Of Hate Crimes

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Five Arguments in the Frank Case Recommendation of Georgia Prison Commission to Governor John M. Slaton to decline the application of Leo Frank for Executive Clemency Memorandum of Recommendation by T.E. Patterson, Georgia Prison Commissioner, regarding the application for Executive Clemency by Leo Frank Letter of T. B. Rice to R. E. Davison Letter of A. M. Hughlett to W. Woods White Letter of Thomas W. Loyless (Augusta Chronicle) to the Georgia Prison Commission Notification to B. H. Hill of the application by Leo Frank for Executive Clemency Letter of Hugh M. Dorsey, Solicitor General, Atlanta Circuit, to R. E. Davison, Georgia Prison Commission Chairman Petition of Hannah G. Franklin to the Georgia Prison Commission on behalf of Leo Frank Letter of A. W. Cozart to the Georgia Prison Commission and Governor John M. Slaton Letter of T. L. Gantt to R. E. Davidson, Georgia Prison Commission Chairman Petition of Atlanta Ministers to the Georgia Prison Commission and Governor John M. Slaton to commute the sentence of Leo Frank Notification to Hugh M. Dorsey, Solicitor General, Atlanta Circuit, of the application by Leo Frank for Executive Clemency Letter of A. G. Powell to Georgia Prison Commission and Governor John M. Slaton Letter of Andrew J. Cobb to G. H. Yancey, Georgia Prison Commission Secretary Letter of J. L. Kiningham to R. E. Davison
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