Alger Hiss Biography

Alger Hiss biography

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NAME: Alger Hiss
OCCUPATION: Legal Professional, Spy, Government Official
BIRTH DATE: November 11, 1904
DEATH DATE: November 15, 1996
EDUCATION: Johns Hopkins University, Harvard Law School
PLACE OF BIRTH: Baltimore, Maryland
PLACE OF DEATH: New York, New York

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Alger Hiss was a U.S. State Department official who was accused of membership in a communist espionage ring.

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Alger Hiss was born on November 11, 1904 in Baltimore, Maryland. He worked in the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1948, Whitaker Chambers accused Hiss of having been a member of an underground communist organization. Hiss denied this but was found guilty and served more than three years of a five-year prison sentence. He released in 1954, still asserting his innocence. He died in 1996.