American Liberty League
 American Liberty League    | |
|---|---|
| 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 • Alfred P. Sloan Jr. • J. Howard Pew |
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.
Membership
The creation of the League was announced in Washington, D.C., on August 22, 1934, by a group of Democrats and a smaller number of Republicans. Jouett Shouse, who had been prominent in Democratic politics and the anti-Prohibition movement, became the group's first chairman. The makeup of the League's executive committee was designed to demonstrate its bipartisan nature. It included: John W. Davis and Al Smith, former Democratic candidates for president; wealthy businessman Irénée du Pont, who left the Republicans to support Al Smith in 1928 and Roosevelt in 1932; and two New York Republicans, Nathan L. Miller, the state's former governor, and Representative James W. Wadsworth.[1] The moving spirit behind the launch of the organization was John Jacob Raskob, a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee and the foremost opponent of Prohibition, former director of General Motors and a board member of DuPont.[2][3]
Known members
9 of the 223 of the members already have pages here:
| Member | Description |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:McCormack–Dickstein Committee | testimony,Congressional hearing | 1934 | McCormack-Dickstein Committee |
References
- ↑ The New York Times: "League is Formed to Scan New Deal, "Protect Rights'," August 23, 1934, accessed December 9, 2010
- ↑ George Wolfskill, The Revolt of the Conservatives: A History of the American Liberty League, 1934–1940 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962), pages 21, 25
- ↑ https://harperapush.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/liberty-league-platform.pdf
