Grassroots antiwar organization founded in 1939 at Yale. Over the next two years, the AFC grew to a membership of 800,000. The group dissolved soon after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Chester Bowles |
Politician |
5-Apr-1901 |
25-May-1986 |
Governor of Connecticut, 1949-51 |
| Barber Conable |
Politician |
2-Nov-1922 |
30-Nov-2003 |
World Bank President, Congressman |
| Father Charles Coughlin |
Religion |
25-Oct-1891 |
27-Oct-1979 |
Radio opponent of FDR |
| e. e. cummings |
Poet |
14-Oct-1894 |
3-Sep-1962 |
Majuscule-challenged American poet |
| John T. Flynn |
Journalist |
25-Oct-1882 |
1964 |
The Roosevelt Myth |
| Gerald Ford |
Head of State |
14-Jul-1913 |
26-Dec-2006 |
38th US President, 1974-77 |
| Henry Ford |
Business |
30-Jul-1863 |
7-Apr-1947 |
Founder of Ford Motors |
| Lillian Gish |
Actor |
14-Oct-1893 |
27-Feb-1993 |
Silent film actress, director |
| Herbert Hoover |
Head of State |
10-Aug-1874 |
20-Oct-1964 |
31st US President, 1929-33 |
| John F. Kennedy |
Head of State |
29-May-1917 |
22-Nov-1963 |
35th US President, 1961-63 |
| Robert M. La Follette, Jr. |
Politician |
6-Feb-1895 |
24-Feb-1953 |
US Senator, committed suicide |
| Sinclair Lewis |
Novelist |
7-Feb-1885 |
10-Jan-1951 |
Arrowsmith and Elmer Gantry |
| Charles Lindbergh |
Aviator |
4-Feb-1902 |
26-Aug-1974 |
Transatlantic soloist |
| Pat Manion |
Radio Personality |
1896 |
1979 |
Manion Forum |
| Robert McCormick |
Business |
30-Jul-1880 |
1-Apr-1955 |
Xenophobe in the Tribune Tower |
| Eddie Rickenbacker |
Aviator |
8-Oct-1890 |
23-Jul-1973 |
Flying ace shot down 22 planes in WWI |
| William Saroyan |
Author |
31-Aug-1908 |
18-May-1981 |
The Time of Your Life |
| Sargent Shriver |
Politician |
9-Nov-1915 |
|
Ran for VP with George McGovern |
| Potter Stewart |
Judge |
23-Jan-1915 |
7-Dec-1985 |
US Supreme Court Justice |
| Robert A. Taft |
Politician |
8-Sep-1889 |
31-Jul-1953 |
US Senator from Ohio, 1939-53 |
| Gore Vidal |
Author |
3-Oct-1925 |
|
Visit to a Small Planet |
| Robert E. Wood |
Business |
13-Jun-1879 |
6-Nov-1969 |
Chairman of Sears, 1939-54 |
| Frank Lloyd Wright |
Architect |
8-Jun-1867 |
9-Apr-1959 |
America's most famous architect |
