Earl Browder
American politician (1891-1973) · United States · On the map · Politicians · Died at 82
Earl Russell Browder was an American politician, spy for the Soviet Union, communist activist and leader of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA). Browder was the General Secretary of the CPUSA during the 1930s and first half of the 1940s.
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Browder c. 1908-1909, aged 17
Prison photo of Earl Browder, December 1917
Browder c. 1925
Jay Lovestone (1917) was Executive Secretary of the CPUSA from the death of C.E. Ruthenberg in early 1927 to mid-1929
Will Weinstone was a main contender for CPUSA leadership after the fall of Jay Lovestone in 1929
Browder with the Scottsboro Boys, 1931
An article from the Indianapolis Times covering Earl Browder's arrest in Terre Haute, Indiana during his 1936 presidential campaign.About this person
During World War I, Browder served time in federal prison as a conscientious objector to conscription and the war. Upon his release, Browder became an active member of the American Communist movement, soon working as an organizer on behalf of the Communist International and its Red International of Labor Unions in China and the Pacific region.
