Susan B. Anthony was a women's rights activist known for her efforts to allow women to vote in U.S. elections. She died in 1906.

Anthony was convicted of voting in the 1872 presidential election. She was fined $100, but vowed to never pay it.

A statement from the Susan B. Anthony museum decrying the pardon said, "To pay would have been to validate the proceedings. To pardon Susan B. Anthony does the same,"

For more, read the Washington Post story.

Click here to read the clemency grant.
Click here to read the White House announcement.

Professional boxer Jack Johnson was convicted in 1913 of violating the 1910 Mann Act. Johnson (who was black) was convicted of taking a woman he was dating (who was white) across state lines. He served a year in prison.

Johnson died in 1946.

For more, read the New York Times story.

Click here to read the White House statement on the pardon.