Federal clemency record
Clemency granted by Warren G. Harding
Republican · March 4, 1921 – August 2, 1923
Commutation · December 25, 1921
Eugene Victor Debs
Conviction under the Espionage Act of 1917 for a speech opposing American participation in World War I, delivered in Canton, Ohio in June 1918. Sentenced to 10 years imprisonment.