| Father Charles Coughlin  AKA Charles Edward Coughlin
Born: 25-Oct-1891
Birthplace: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Died: 27-Oct-1979
Location of death: Birmingham, MI
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Southfield, MI
Gender: Male
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Religion, Radio Personality Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Radio opponent of FDR Starting in 1926, Coughlin built an audience of Sunday listeners of his religious/political radio program, reaching over 30 million at its peak. Initially supporting Franklin D. Roosevelt (it was he who coined the phrase "Roosevelt or Ruin"), he turned against him once the full ramifications of the New Deal became clear -- that its changes to society were not radical enough, and they were the wrong kind of changes. The radio program drifted to the far right, delving into class warfare and anti-Semitism. His magazine Social Justice was banned from the mails under the Espionage Act, and the Archbishop of Detroit Edward Mooney and other higher-ups at the Roman Catholic Church saw to it that Coughlin's voice was removed from the radio. He was allowed to remain pastor of Shrine of the Little Flower Church, until he retired in 1966.
Sample verbiage:
"On this earth you must belong to the church militant or get the hell out of it. That's the right word. You're either with me or against me. There is no middle ground in this battle between Christ and the anti-Christ. If you step out of [the battle], you're worse than those boys who ran off to Norway, Sweden, those boys who deserted the government. You're deserters, rotten deserters." [11 June 1973]
Today Coughlin is considered one of the great demagogues of the 20th century.Father: Thomas J. Coughlin
Mother: Amelia Mahoney Coughlin
University: St. Michael's College, University of Toronto (1911)
Teacher: Assumption College, Toronto (1916-22)
Professor: Assumption College, Sandwich, Ontario, Canada
America First Committee
National Union for Social Justice Founder (11-Nov-1934)
Sedition Espionage Act of 1917 (May-1942)
Irish Ancestry
Author of books:
The New Deal in Money (1934)
A Series of Lectures on Social Justice (1935)
Am I Anti-Semitic (1939)
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