FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives by year, 1959

In 1959, the United States FBI, under Director J. Edgar Hoover, continued for a tenth year to maintain a public list of the people it regarded as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.

The "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" listed by the FBI in 1959 include (in FBI list appearance sequence order): January 8, 1959 #110 One month on the list David Lynn Thurston - U.S. prisoner apprehended February 6, 1959, in New York City by police after a chase through theater crowds on the streets, after attempting to rob a Broadway restaurant February 17, 1959 #111 One day on the list John Thomas Freeman (fugitive) - U.S. prisoner arrested February 18, 1959, by the FBI in Hillside, Maryland, after a citizen recognized his photograph in a newspaper article March 4, 1959 #112 One year on the list Edwin Sanford Garrison - U.S. prisoner arrested September 9, 1960, in St. Louis, Missouri; he told the FBI Agents: "I'm glad it's over.

July 10, 1959 #116 Eight months on the list Billy Owens Williams - U.S. prisoner arrested March 4, 1960, in New York City July 21, 1959 #117 Three weeks on the list James Francis Jenkins - U.S. prisoner arrested August 12, 1959, in a Buffalo, New York, motel after an informant tipped off the Bureau August 11, 1959 #118 Two weeks on the list Harry Raymond Pope - U.S. prisoner arrested August 25, 1959, in Lubbock, Texas, by the FBI and Texas Rangers August 26, 1959 #119 One week on the list James Francis Duffy - U.S. prisoner arrested September 2, 1959, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania September 9, 1959 #120 Four months on the list Robert Garfield Brown, Jr. - U.S. prisoner arrested January 11, 1960, in Cincinnati, Ohio, by the FBI after a citizen recognized his photograph on an Identification Order September 24, 1959 #121 One day on the list Frederick Anthony Seno - U.S. prisoner arrested September 24, 1959, in a Miami, Florida, rooming house where he had been living under an assumed name.

October 7, 1959 #122 Ten months on the list Smith Gerald Hudson - U.S. prisoner arrested July 31, 1960, in Cozad, Nebraska, after a citizen recognized him from a wanted flyer.

Hudson refused to admit his identity and was identified through fingerprints October 21, 1959 #123 Two months on the list, later also Fugitive #304 in 1969 Joseph Lloyd Thomas - reappeared as Fugitive #304 in 1969; was a U.S. prisoner arrested December 16, 1959, in Pelzer, South Carolina, by the FBI after a citizen recognized his photograph on an Identification Order in a post office.