John Cudahy

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John Cudahy
United States Minister to Luxembourg
In office
January 17, 1940 – July 18, 1940
PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt
Preceded byJoseph E. Davies
Succeeded byAnthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr.
Personal details
Born(1887-12-10)December 10, 1887
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
DiedSeptember 6, 1943(1943-09-06) (aged 55)
Brown Deer, Wisconsin
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseKatherine Reed
RelationsEdward Cudahy Jr. (cousin)
Children3, including Michael
ParentPatrick Cudahy
Alma materHarvard University
University of Wisconsin Law School

John Clarence Cudahy (December 10, 1887 – September 6, 1943) was an American real estate developer and diplomat. In the years leading up to World War II, Cudahy served as United States ambassador to Poland and Belgium, and as United States minister to Luxembourg and the Irish Free State.[1][2]

Early life

Cudahy was born in

meat packing industrialist.[3] He graduated from Harvard University in 1910 and from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1913.[4]

Cudahy served during

Polar Bear Expedition, which was sent to north Russia to intervene on behalf of the anti-communist forces in the Russian Civil War. On November 14, 1918, Cudahy led a counter-attack that succeeded in breaking through and routing the 1,000 Bolshevik troops that on November 11 (Armistice Day) had encircled and attacked the 600 American, Canadian, and Royal Scots soldiers who were holding the village of Tulgas on the Northern Dvina.[6][7] However, his eventual disillusionment with the campaign in north Russia led him to write (under a pseudonym) the book Archangel: The American War with Russia.[7][self-published source
]

Back in the

Milwaukee
.

Diplomatic service

Between 1933 and 1940, Cudahy served the United States as minister to several European nations.

From September 6, 1933, until April 23, 1937, Cudahy served as the American ambassador to Poland.[2] His time in Poland was marked by a militarily backed government under Józef Piłsudski and continued tensions between Poland and Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler.

From August 23, 1937, Cudahy served as

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, and he served until January 15, 1940.[2]

In January 1940, Cudahy became both the ambassador to

governments-in-exile. A close friend of King Leopold III, he publicly denounced Britain, France and the U.S. for a failure to plan an adequate defense. He became an embarrassment to Washington, which was officially neutral.[8]

In 1941,

Battle of Belgium
and his meeting with Hitler.

Death and descendants

Cudahy died in September 1943, when he was thrown from a horse on his

Milwaukee.[10] Cudahy's daughter, Mary Keogh-Stringer (born Mary Toulgas Cudahy), was a successful artist;[11]
the dedication of The Armies March reads;

for Toulgas Cudahy
whose name was taken from the battle twenty-three years ago on Armistice Day in the American war with Russia,
in the hope that her generation may see an enduring armistice.

Works

  • A. Chronicler (Cudahy, John) (1924). Archangel: The American War with Russia. .
  • Cudahy, John (1928). Mañanaland: Adventuring with Camera and Rifle through California in Mexico. .
  • Cudahy, John (1930). African Horizons. .
  • Cudahy, John (November 25, 1940). "Belgium's Léopold: U.S. Ambassador Clears the King of "Treason" Charge". Life. Vol. 9, no. 22. pp. 75–83 – via Google Books.
  • Cudahy, John (1940). The Case for the King of the Belgians. .
  • Cudahy, John (1941). The Armies March: A Personal Report. .

References

  1. ^ a b "John Cudahy, Diplomat Well Known Here, Dies In Fall From Horse Sunday". The Sheboygan Press. Sheboygan, Wisconsin. September 7, 1943. Retrieved April 18, 2017 – via newspapers.com.
  2. ^ a b c d "John Clarence Cudahy (1887–1943)". history.state.gov. Retrieved April 18, 2017.
  3. ^ Cudahy, Patrick (1912). "Patrick Cudahy, His Life".
  4. Arizona Republic. Phoenix, Arizona. AP
    . September 7, 1943. Retrieved April 27, 2017 – via newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Ex-Envoy Is Killed In Fall from Horse". Battle Creek Enquirer. Battle Creek, Michigan. AP. September 7, 1943. Retrieved April 27, 2017 – via newspapers.com.
  6. .
  7. ^
    ISBN 9781499056082. Retrieved April 27, 2017 – via Google Books
    .
  8. ^ Timothy P. Maga, "Diplomat among Kings: John Cudahy and Leopold III." Wisconsin Magazine of History 67.2 (1983): 82-98 online.
  9. ^ Cudahy, John (9 June 1941). "Hitler on Americas: Life Correspondent Interviews Führer on War and the Future". Life. pp. 34–36.
  10. ^ Jagler, Steve (May 13, 2013). "Michael Cudahy receives BizTimes Lifetime Achievement Award". BizTimes.com. Archived from the original on 2014-07-28. Retrieved 2014-07-24.
  11. ^ "Mary Keogh-Stringer". tributes.com. January 19, 2015. Retrieved April 27, 2017.

Further reading

  • Maga, Timothy P. "Diplomat among Kings: John Cudahy and Leopold III." Wisconsin Magazine of History 67.2 (1983): 82-98 online.
  • Spencer, Thomas, “Loyal Democrats John Cudahy, Jim Farley, and the Politics and Diplomacy of the New Deal Era, 1933–1941,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 94 #1 (Spring 2011), 2–15.

External links

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Ferdinand Lammot "Mot" Belin
United States Ambassador to Poland

1933–1937
Succeeded by
Preceded by
United States Envoy to the Irish Free State

1937–1940
Succeeded by
David Gray
Preceded by
United States Ambassador to Belgium

1940
Succeeded by