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Typed White House memorandum dated July 10, 1936, on revoking the commutation of Ignazio Lupo's sentence, clipped inside a folder tabbed 'OF 2126 Lupo, Ignazio 1936', with a circled '2126' and pencil marks.
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President's Official File 2126: Lupo, Ignazio, 1936 (Franklin D. Roosevelt Library)

A three-image file from the Roosevelt White House: a memorandum of 10 July 1936 recording that the President, on the Attorney General's advice and Governor Lehman's recommendation, revoked the commutation of Ignazio Lupo's sentence and ordered him returned to Atlanta, and a telegram telling the Governor.

Date
1936-07-10
Kind
case-file
Source
National Archives Catalog
Retrieved
2026-10-12
NAID
2782569
Rights
A record of the White House in the President's Official File, held by the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library of the National Archives. A United States government work, public domain in the United States under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The National Archives catalog lists access and use as unrestricted.

The National Archives catalogs this item as “OF 2126: Lupo, Ignazio 1936,” in the President’s Official File at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library. The digitised file holds three images: a folder tab, a memorandum and a telegram.

The White House memorandum, dated 10 July 1936 and shown here, reads that “The Attorney General advised the President that he was of the opinion that the record fully warrants his revoking the commutation of the sentence of Ignazio Lupo in accordance with the recommendation of Governor Lehman,” and that on that date the President “commanded the United States Marshal for the Southern District of New York to apprehend the said Ignazio Lupo” and deliver him to the Warden at Atlanta, Georgia, to serve the rest of his original term. It ends: “Order of Revocation signed by the President and returned to the Department of Justice, July 10, 1936.” Pencil marks beside the text include the note “Pres. Harding.” The telegram, from the Assistant Secretary to the President, informs Governor Lehman of the revocation.

The file does not state the grounds. The Fifth Circuit’s 1937 opinion quotes the revocation order’s grounds (92 F.2d 362). This record falls outside 1890-1920 and is filed to complete the sequence of Lupo’s federal records.

itemPardon warrant 36-638: conditional commutation of the sentence of Ignazio Lupo, 1921, with the 1936 revocation notePrinted warrant signed by President Warren G. Harding commuting Ignazio Lupo's thirty-year counterfeiting sentence on condition that he be law-abiding, so that he could go to Italy; a handwritten note records the revocation of 10 July 1936 and his return to Atlanta.itemLupo v. Zerbst, Warden, 92 F.2d 362 (5th Cir. 1937)Fifth Circuit opinion of 19 October 1937 affirming the denial of Ignazio Lupo's habeas corpus petition after the President revoked his conditional commutation in 1936 and he was returned to the Atlanta penitentiary.