1900's Law and Justice | Deaths

William Boyd Allison, 81, senator from Iowa instrumental in establishing the Interstate Commerce Commission in 1887, 4 August 1908.

John Peter Altgeld, 55, former governor of Illinois who wrote Our Penal Machinery and its Victims (1884), pardoned the three surviving men convicted in the 1886 Haymarket bombing, and protested President Cleveland's use of federal troops against Pullman strikers (1894), 12 March 1902.

Susan B. Anthony, 86, leader of the woman suffrage movement who was arrested in 1872 for voting in Rochester, New York, convicted, and refused to pay a $100 fine; she argued that laws were meaningless if they contradicted what was right, 13 March 1906.

Robert Charles O'Hara Benjamin, 45, West Indian-born lawyer and teacher who practiced law throughout the United States and fought for legal and political rights for blacks; he was murdered for registering black voters, October...