Lois de Lafayette Washburn

BornApril 5, 1893

DiedAugust 1976 (aged 83)

Lois de Lafayette Washburn
Born	April 5, 1893 United States
Died	August 1976 (aged 83) United States

Lois de Lafayette Washburn (April 5, 1893 – 1976) was an American fascist and the founder of antisemitic groups in Chicago and Tacoma, Washington. She signed her letters "T.N.T."

She claimed to be a descendant of General Lafayette,^[1] the French aide to George Washington.

Political career

She founded antisemitic groups in Chicago and Tacoma, Washington.^[2] She also acted as the executive secretary of Donald Shea's National Gentile League.^[3]

In 1936 she founded the Crusaders for Economic Liberty in Chicago with George W. Christians.^[3] She also helped establish the American Gentile Protective Association of Chicago.^[4]

In a letter to a friend she observed that, "First it is necessary to drag these brigand Jews by the hair of the head … and place them before a firing squad, since death is the penalty for high treason. Then we will proceed to set up William Dudley Pelley's Christian Commonwealth".^[4]

While on trial with seditionists in 1944 during the Brown Scare, she gave a Nazi salute from the court steps.^[5]^[6] She appeared at one hearing in her nightie, claiming the jail guards had deliberately stolen her clothes. She made political statements and laughed at inappropriate moments.^[4]

Selected publications

"Yankee Minute Men" (pamphlet)

References

↑ Carlson, John Roy. (1943) Under Cover: My Four Years in the Nazi Underworld of America. New York: Dutton. pp. 361.
↑ Yellin, Emily (2010-05-11). Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4391-0358-6.
1 2 Jeansonne, Glen. (1996). Women of the Far Right: The Mothers' Movement and World War II. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 154. ISBN 978-0-226-39589-0.
1 2 3 Berger, Knute (25 February 2021). "The enduring legacy of a small-time fascist from Puget Sound". Crosscut. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
↑ Belknap, Michal R. (1994). American Political Trials. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-275-94437-7.
↑ "[Lois de Lafayette Washburn gives a stiff-armed salute as she and Howard Victor Broenstrupp leave Federal District Court April 17th, in Washington, D.C.]". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-24.

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