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'''Lois de Lafayette Washburn''' (April 5, 1893 - August 1976)<ref>[http://sortedbyname.com/pages/w103201.html Social Security Death Master File]</ref> of [[Chicago]] and Tacoma, Washington was defendant in the [[Great Sedition Trial of 1944]]. She was one of the leaders of the [[National Liberty Party]] and was a founder of the [[National Gentile League]].<ref>''The Berlin Observer'' (US military occupation paper), May 31, 1946</ref> and in October 1937 National Secretary of the [[American Gentile Protective Association]]. 

In 1936 and 1937 she worked with [[George W. Christians]] in forming the [[Crusaders for Economic Liberty]] organization in [[Chicago]].<ref>''Women of the Far Right: the Mothers' Movement and World War II, by Glen Jeansonne, page 154</ref>

By 1942 she moved to the Seattle, Washington area and helped [[Frank W. Clark]] run the National Liberty Party.<ref>''Women of the Far Right: the Mothers' Movement and World War II, by Glen Jeansonne, page 154</ref>

In 1944 she worked with [[North Carolina]]’s Senator [[Robert Reynolds]] as his secretary when he formed the [[American Nationalist Party]].<ref>''Buncombe Bob'', by Julian M. Pleasants, p. 175.</ref>

She was employed as a stenographer and taught night classes in Washington DC to support herself during the [[sedition]] trial. In 1937 she authored a book on shorthand dictation, ''Syllabic writing: the syllables, setments and phrases of the entire English language''<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=9v34HAAACAAJ&dq=lois-de-lafayette-washburn ''Syllabic writing: the syllables, setments and phrases of the entire English language'', by Lois de Lafayette Washburn]</ref>

At the time of the trial she was a widow age 50.<ref>''Women of the Far Right: the Mothers' Movement and World War II, by Glen Jeansonne, page 154</ref>

She claimed to be a descendent of [[Marquis de Lafayette]], a French general who fought in the [[American Revolution]].<ref>''Women of the Far Right: the Mothers' Movement and World War II, by Glen Jeansonne, page 154</ref>

==Pamphlets==
* ''Yankee Freeman''
* ''Yankee Minute Man''

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[[Category:Great Sedition Trial]]
[[Category:1940's nationalists]]
[[Category:Nationalist women]]