of Baltimore, Md. Born in Maryland, July 3, 1903. Son of Harry Ades and Fannie Ades. Communist. Lawyer; accountant; defense attorney for Euel Lee (alias "Orphan Jones") in his 1932-33 trial for the murder of the Davis family; during the trial, Ades was attacked and injured by a mob in Snow Hill, Maryland; later, he was disbarred for casting aspersions on the judicial system; candidate for Governor of Maryland, 1934; fought in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, 1937. Jewish. Died in New York, May 27, 1986. Interment at Cemetery of Baltimore Hebrew Congregation.
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Bernard Ades, a former Maryland lawyer and avowed Communist, died on May 27 in New York, where he had lived since 1941. He was 82 (John Hopkins Magazine, October 1986, p50)
bio from Political Graveyard
Bernard Ades, a former Maryland lawyer and avowed Communist, died on May 27 in New York, where he had lived since 1941. He was 82 (John Hopkins Magazine, October 1986, p50)
of Baltimore, Md. Born in Maryland, July 3, 1903. Son of Harry Ades and Fannie Ades. Communist. Lawyer; accountant; defense attorney for Euel Lee (alias "Orphan Jones") in his 1932-33 trial for the murder of the Davis family; during the trial, Ades was attacked and injured by a mob in Snow Hill, Maryland; later, he was disbarred for casting aspersions on the judicial system; candidate for Governor of Maryland, 1934; fought in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, 1937. Jewish. Died in New York, May 27, 1986. Interment at Cemetery of Baltimore Hebrew Congregation.
bio from Political Graveyard
Bernard Ades, a former Maryland lawyer and avowed Communist, died on May 27 in New York, where he had lived since 1941. He was 82 (John Hopkins Magazine, October 1986, p50)
bio from Political Graveyard
Bernard Ades, a former Maryland lawyer and avowed Communist, died on May 27 in New York, where he had lived since 1941. He was 82 (John Hopkins Magazine, October 1986, p50)
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