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Louis F. Budenz

Louis Francis Budenz (pronounced "byew-DENZ"; July 17, 1891 – April 27, 1972) was an American activist and writer. He began as a labor activist and became a member of the Communist Party USA.[1] In 1945, Budenz renounced Communism and became a vocal anti-Communist, appearing as an expert witness at governmental hearings and writing about his experiences.

Louis F. Budenz

Louis Francis Budenz

(1891-07-17)July 17, 1891
Indianapolis, Indiana

April 27, 1972(1972-04-27) (aged 80)

Newport, Rhode Island

espionage, later anti-Communism, writer

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Background[edit]

Budenz was born on July 17, 1891, in Indianapolis, Indiana, a grandson of German and Irish immigrants, being raised on the Southside in a mostly German and Irish Catholic neighborhood around Fountain Square.


He attended St. John's Catholic High School in Indianapolis, Xavier University in Cincinnati, and St. Mary's College in Topeka, Kansas, before receiving his LL.B. from Indianapolis Law School in 1912.

Personal life and death[edit]

Budenz married Gizella Geiss in 1916 in Terre Haute, Indiana. Louis and Gizella adopted a daughter in 1919 named Louise (born in 1917). Louis, wife Gizella and daughter Louise, moved to Rahway, NJ in 1920 where Louis worked for the ACLU (NY). Louis and Gizella were separated in 1931 and divorced in 1938.


Budenz married his second wife Margaret Rodgers of Pittsburgh, by whom he had four daughters: Julia, Josephine, Justine and Joanna.


Louis Francis Budenz died age 80 on April 27, 1972, at Newport Hospital in Newport, Rhode Island.[20][21][22]

Catholic priests distinguished Protestants have known: historical facts vs. uncritical calumny. St. Louis, Mo., Central bureau of the 1915

Roman Catholic central verein

St. Louis, Mo., Central bureau of the Roman Catholic central verein 1915

A list of books for the study of the social question, being an introduction to Catholic social literature

Labor Age cartoons (New York: s.n., 1932)

New York : Workers Library Publishers, 1937 (with Earl Browder)

Red baiting: enemy of labor; with a letter to Homer Martin by Earl Browder

May Day, 1937: what it means to you New York : Workers Library Publishers, 1937

May Day, 1940 New York : Workers Library Publishers, 1940

Save your union!: the meaning of the 'Anti-Trust' persecution of labor New York : Workers Library Publishers, 1940

Communist period:


Anti-Communist period:

at Internet Archive

Works by or about Louis F. Budenz

Comments on Vassiliev’s notes on Gorsky’s "Failures in the U.S.A. (1938-48)"

Dennis v. United States, Louis Budenz, Testimony, March 1949

- Linus Pauling and the International Peace Movement: A Documentary History

Key Participants: Louis Budenz

Investigation of un-American propaganda activities in the United States: Louis F. Budenz. Hearings (1946)