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A Short Biography of Wendell L. Willkie

Author Name:

Wendell L. Willkie

Born As:

Lewis Wendell Willkie

Other Names:

Wendell L. Willkie

Born:

18 Feb 1892

Died:

8 Oct 1944




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Businessman, Lawyer and Republican Politican                          
Selected Works:

One World - 1943
An American Program - 1944.                          
Mother 
Father  Herman Willkie.

Henrietta Trisch was one of the first women to be admitted to the bar in Indiana.

Wife Edith Wilk, one son.                          
                          
Willkie spoke of the need to uplift blacks and addressed a convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - NAACP in 1942. When a violent race riot broke out in Detroit on June 20, 1943, Willkie went on national radio to criticize Republicans and Democrats for ignoring "the Negro question."