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<html> <head> <title>America First Committee</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css" /> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr> <tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 15px 15px 15px 15px;"><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0> America First Committee ORGANIZATION 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 two days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Founding Date: 1939<table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_actors"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/733/000048589/">Samuel Hopkins Adams</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Jan-1871</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Nov-1958</tt></td> <td>The Great American Fraud</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/755/000207134/">Harry Elmer Barnes</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jun-1889</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Aug-1968</tt></td> <td>American conspiracy theorist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/117/000054952/">Chester Bowles</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Apr-1901</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-May-1986</tt></td> <td>Governor of Connecticut, 1949-51</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/149/000023080/">William F. Buckley</a></td> <td><center>Columnist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Nov-1925</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Feb-2008</tt></td> <td>National Review</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/951/000168447/">Anton J. Carlson</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Jan-1875</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Sep-1956</tt></td> <td>The Machinery of the Body</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/700/000115355/">Irvin S. Cobb</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Jun-1876</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Mar-1944</tt></td> <td>Old Judge Priest</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/007/000057833/">Barber Conable</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Nov-1922</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Nov-2003</tt></td> <td>World Bank President, Congressman</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/525/000063336/">Father Charles Coughlin</a></td> <td><center>Religion</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Oct-1891</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Oct-1979</tt></td> <td>Radio opponent of FDR</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/960/000024888/">e. e. cummings</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Oct-1894</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Sep-1962</tt></td> <td>Majuscule-challenged American poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/089/000027008/">Walt Disney</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Dec-1901</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Dec-1966</tt></td> <td>Founder of Disney empire</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/911/000364816/">Hamilton Fish III</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Dec-1888</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jan-1991</tt></td> <td>Congressman from New York, 1920-45</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/193/000114848/">John T. Flynn</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Oct-1882</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Apr-1964</tt></td> <td>The Roosevelt Myth</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/400/000022334/">Gerald Ford</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jul-1913</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Dec-2006</tt></td> <td>38th US President, 1974-77</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/294/000027213/">Henry Ford</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Jul-1863</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Apr-1947</tt></td> <td>Founder of Ford Motors</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/002/000031906/">Lillian Gish</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Oct-1893</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Feb-1993</tt></td> <td>Silent film actress, director</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/429/000026351/">Herbert Hoover</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Aug-1874</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Oct-1964</tt></td> <td>31st US President, 1929-33</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/865/000204253/">Laura Ingalls</a></td> <td><center>Aviator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Dec-1893</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jan-1967</tt></td> <td>Aviatrix and Nazi sympathizer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/113/000024041/">John F. Kennedy</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-May-1917</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Nov-1963</tt></td> <td>35th US President, 1961-63</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/761/000118407/">Robert M. La Follette, Jr.</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Feb-1895</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Feb-1953</tt></td> <td>US Senator, committed suicide</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/012/000047868/">Sinclair Lewis</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Feb-1885</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jan-1951</tt></td> <td>Arrowsmith and Elmer Gantry</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/687/000026609/">Charles Lindbergh</a></td> <td><center>Aviator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Feb-1902</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Aug-1974</tt></td> <td>Transatlantic soloist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/147/000115799/">Alice Roosevelt Longworth</a></td> <td><center>Socialite</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Feb-1884</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Feb-1980</tt></td> <td>The Other Washington Monument</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/645/000206027/">Frank O. Lowden</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Jan-1861</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Mar-1943</tt></td> <td>Governor of Illinois, 1917-21</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/996/000132600/">Pat Manion</a></td> <td><center>Radio Personality</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1896</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1979</tt></td> <td>Manion Forum</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/153/000159673/">Robert McCormick</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Jul-1880</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Apr-1955</tt></td> <td>Xenophobe in the Tribune Tower</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/675/000178141/">Gerald P. Nye</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-1892</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Jul-1971</tt></td> <td>US Senator from North Dakota, 1925-45</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/511/000172992/">David A. Reed</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Dec-1880</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Feb-1953</tt></td> <td>US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1922-35</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/236/000212597/">William H. Regnery</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Oct-1877</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Jan-1954</tt></td> <td>America First Committee</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/848/000024776/">Eddie Rickenbacker</a></td> <td><center>Aviator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Oct-1890</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Jul-1973</tt></td> <td>Flying ace shot down 22 planes in WWI</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/299/000046161/">William Saroyan</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Aug-1908</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-May-1981</tt></td> <td>The Time of Your Life</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/499/000025424/">Sargent Shriver</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Nov-1915</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jan-2011</tt></td> <td>First Director of the Peace Corps</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/504/000052348/">Potter Stewart</a></td> <td><center>Judge</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Jan-1915</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Dec-1985</tt></td> <td>US Supreme Court Justice, 1958-81</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/025/000054860/">Robert A. Taft</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Sep-1889</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Jul-1953</tt></td> <td>US Senator from Ohio, 1939-53</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/873/000205258/">Norman Thomas</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Nov-1884</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-1968</tt></td> <td>American Socialist Party</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/226/000353164/">James E. Van Zandt</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Dec-1898</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jan-1986</tt></td> <td>Congressman from Pennsylvania</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/138/000023069/">Gore Vidal</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Oct-1925</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Jul-2012</tt></td> <td>Visit to a Small Planet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/939/000364844/">Burton K. Wheeler</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Feb-1882</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jan-1975</tt></td> <td>US Senator from Montana, 1923-47</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/933/000126555/">Robert E. 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