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William Dudley Pelley (view source)
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Pelley won a few thousand votes for president in 1936 on the so-called "Christian Party" ticket.
Pelley won a few thousand votes for president in 1936 on the so-called "Christian Party" ticket.
While he preached against 'the international Jewish-Communist conspiracy' and the 'greediness of industrial capitalists,' Pelley never grounded his ideology in European fascism as did such writers as Lawrence Dennis. Christian millenarianism and nostalgia for a pre-industrial American utopia - the mainstays of Pelley's ideology - attracted most of his adherents. His influence waned after he dissolved the Silver Legion of America in 1940, and ended with his arrest and conviction for sedition in 1942. He was released in 1950 and died in obscurity.
While he preached against 'the international Jewish-Communist conspiracy' and the 'greediness of industrial capitalists,' Pelley never grounded his ideology in European fascism as did such writers as Lawrence Dennis. Christian millenarianism and nostalgia for a pre-industrial American utopia - the mainstays of Pelley's ideology - attracted most of his adherents. His influence waned after he dissolved the Silver Legion of America in 1940, and ended with his arrest and conviction for [[sedition]] in 1942. He was released in 1950 and died in obscurity.
Pelley was the son of a Methodist minister from Massachusetts but never graduated from high school.
Pelley was the son of a Methodist minister from Massachusetts but never graduated from high school.