Louis Ludlow

Louis Ludlow (1936)

Louis Leon Ludlow (born June 24, 1873 in Connersville , Fayette County , Indiana , †  November 28, 1950 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1929 and 1949 he represented the state of Indiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Louis Ludlow attended public schools in his home country. In 1892 he came to Indianapolis where he worked as a reporter and political journalist. He became the Washington correspondent for various newspapers in Indiana and Ohio . Between 1901 and 1929 he was a member of the Congressional Press Galleries . Politically, Ludlow joined the Democratic Party . In the 1928 congressional elections , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the seventh constituency of Indiana , where he succeeded Ralph E. Updike on March 4, 1929 . After nine re-elections, he was able to complete ten legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1949 . Between 1933 and 1943 he represented the twelfth and then the eleventh district of his state.

The first few years of his time as a member of parliament were dominated by the global economic crisis in the early 1930s. Between 1933 and 1941, most of the federal government's New Deal laws were passed. Since 1941, the work of the Congress was also shaped by the events of the Second World War and its consequences. In 1933 the 20th and 21st amendments were ratified. From 1935 onwards, Ludlow proposed a further amendment himself, which became known as the Ludlow Amendment . This stated that a prior referendum should be required for the United States to declare war - unless the United States itself was attacked. Before the decisive vote on the inclusion of the amendment in the constitution, Speaker William B. Bankhead read a letter from President Franklin D. Roosevelt , in which he spoke out against the ratification. Ultimately, the House of Representatives voted 209 to 188 against the amendment .

In 1948 Louis Ludlow decided not to run again. After leaving the US House of Representatives, he resumed his previous journalistic activities. He died on November 28, 1950 in the federal capital Washington.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Citizens' "Athenian" Initiatives Amendment: Ludlow Amendment

Web links

• Louis Ludlow in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Louis Ludlow in the database of Find a Grave (English)