American Liberty League
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Formation | 1934 |
Extinction | 1940 |
Membership | • Jouett Shouse • Grayson Mallet-Prevost Murphy • W.H.Statton • Sewell L. Avery • Thurmond Chatham • Colby M. Chester • W.L.Clayton • John W. Davis • Irénée Du Pont • H.B. Earhart • Joseph B. Ely • Helen Hall Newberry Joy • Mills B. Lane • Robert Luce • J. Howard Pew • Joseph Meyer Proskauer • Frank C. Rand • Mrs. Charles H. Sarin • Jouett Shouse • Alfred K. Smith • A.A. Sprague • W.H Stayton • Mrs. James Ross Todd • James W. Wadsworth • John Jacob Raskob |
The American Liberty League was an American political organization formed in 1934. Its membership consisted primarily of wealthy business elites and prominent political figures, who were for the most part conservatives opposed to the New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Known members
9 of the 223 of the members already have pages here:
Member | Description |
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Thurmond Chatham | |
John W. Davis | |
Grayson Murphy | US deep state operative who was implicated in the Business Plot and died in 1937 |
Irénée Du Pont | Poisoning the US with tetraethyl lead and other chemicals as head of DuPont. A central figure in the unsuccessful 1934 Business Plot to install a puppet leader in US White House. |
John Raskob | |
Elihu Root | US deep politician. A member of J. P. Morgan's Corsair Club. |
Jouett Shouse | |
Alfred Sloan | |
Al Smith | 4 term governor of New York |
Related Document
Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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Document:McCormack–Dickstein Committee | testimony,Congressional hearing | 1934 | McCormack-Dickstein Committee |
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