Lois de Lafayette Washburn

Lois de Lafayette Washburn (born c. 1894) was an American fascist and the founder of anti-Semitic groups in Chicago and Tacoma, Washington. She signed her letters "T.N.T."

Early life

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

Political career

In 1936 she founded the Crusaders for Economic Liberty in Chicago with George W. Christians.[2]

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

While on trial with seditionists in 1944 during the Brown Scare, she gave a Nazi salute from the court steps.[4][5]

Selected publications
  • "Yankee Minute Men" (pamphlet)

References
  1. Carlson, John Roy. (1943) Under Cover: My Four Years in the Nazi Underworld of America. New York: Dutton. pp. 361.
  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.
  3. 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.
  4. Belknap, Michal R. (1994). American Political Trials. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-275-94437-7.
  5. "[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, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
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