Thomas Danforth
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Thomas Danforth was a famous judge of the Salem Witchcraft Trials in early colonial America.
As a character in The Crucible by Arthur Miller, he is portrayed as a hotheaded judge who has aspirations to eventually move to a court in Boston. He is shown with tendencies to use trickery and intimidation to get whatever information he wants out of the witnesses and defendants. He found every person he tried guilty of witchcraft and sentenced them to hanging, except Giles Corey.
