Important people part 3:Al Capone

The Mans an original Gangster that’s all there is to say. The reason I included this man, is because even though he isn’t a politician, he is famous as the villain of the prohibition era, he was responsible for most of the liquor and alcohol bootlegging in the country. He was a mastermind to many murders, including the infamous Saint Valentines Massacre.

He was the boss of the Italian American organized crime syndicate in Chicago, known as "the Capones". His full name Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone ( He was born on January 17, 1899 –  He died on January 25, 1947), was an infamous man, but with all the crimes against him he never went jail for them. After the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre, the Government was out for Capone’s head, but all their investigations didn’t come up with enough evidence to convict him. But finally they caught him for tax evasion and sent him to San Francisco’s maximum security penitently called Alcatraz, for eleven years.

Capone died a few years after his release, with declining physical and mental health, he was often herd ranting about communists and plots to kill him by his former cell mate. On January 21 1947, Capone had a stroke, he seemed to be recovering but three days later he contracted Pneumonia, and suffered cardiac arrest in his Miami home.