Louis Ludlow

Louis Leon Ludlow ( * 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 U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Louis Ludlow attended the public schools of his home. In 1892 he came to Indianapolis, where he worked as a reporter and political journalist. He was the Washington correspondent for several 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 congressional elections of 1928 he was in the seventh election district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Ralph E. Updike on March 4, 1929. After nine elections he could pass in Congress until January 3, 1949 ten legislative periods. Between 1933 and 1943 he represented the twelfth and then the eleventh district of his state.

The first years of his deputies period were marked by the world economic crisis of the early 1930s. Between 1933 and 1941 most of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were adopted. Since 1941 the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War and its aftermath was marked. In 1933, the 20th and the 21st Amendment to the Constitution ratified. Ludlow struck from 1935 several times even another additional item, which became known as Ludlow Amendment. This said that the declaration of war by the United States prior plebiscite should be necessary - unless the U.S. would even attacked. Before the crucial vote on the inclusion of the additive in the Constitution leaving Speaker William B. Bankhead a letter from President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in which he spoke out against the ratification. Ultimately, the House of Representatives voted with 209:188 votes against the amendment.

1948 Louis Ludlow waived on a bid again. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives, he took his previous journalistic experience again. He died on 28 November 1950 in the German capital Washington.