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'''John Abt''' was the Chief of Litigation, [[Agricultural Adjustment Administration]] from 1933 to 1935, then assistant general counsel of the [[Works Progress Administration]] in 1935.  Later he served as chief counsel on Senator Robert La Follette, Jr.'s [[LaFollette Committee]] from 1936 to 1937, then special assistant to the United States Attorney General, 1937 and 1938. In 1948 he worked with the Progressive Party of former Vice President [[Henry A. Wallace]]. In 1950-53, he unsuccessfully defended the [[Communist Party]] before the [[Subversive Activities Control Board]], which found that the party was required by law to register as an agent of a foreign power.<ref>83d Cong., 1st sess., Document No. 41

'''John Abt''' was the Chief of Litigation, [[Agricultural Adjustment Administration]] from 1933 to 1935, then assistant general counsel of the [[Works Progress Administration]] in 1935.  Later he served as chief counsel on Senator Robert La Follette, Jr.'s [[LaFollette Committee]] from 1936 to 1937, then special assistant to the United States Attorney General, 1937 and 1938. In 1948 he worked with the Progressive Party of former Vice President [[Henry A. Wallace]]. In 1950-53, he unsuccessfully defended the [[Communist Party]] before the [[Subversive Activities Control Board]], which found that the party was required by law to register as an agent of a foreign power.<ref>83d Cong., 1st sess., Document No. 41, Subversive Activities Control Board, [http://ia360638.us.archive.org/2/items/herbertbrownellj1956unit/herbertbrownellj1956unit.pdf Herbert Brownell, Jr. Attorney General of the United States, Petitioner vs. Communist Party of the United States of America, Respondent: Report of the Board], April 23, 1953 (Washington: United States Government Printing Office: 1953), pp. 1, 132 (PDF pp. 9, 140)</ref>

Subversive Activities Control Board, [http://ia360638.us.archive.org/2/items/herbertbrownellj1956unit/herbertbrownellj1956unit.pdf Herbert Brownell, Jr. Attorney General of the United States, Petitioner vs. Communist Party of the United States of America, Respondent: Report of the Board], April 23, 1953 (Washington: United States Government Printing Office: 1953), pp. 1, 132 (PDF pp. 9, 140)</ref>

Abt was also a member of the [[Harold Ware|Ware group]], a group of American governmental employees in the 1930's also belonging to the [[Communist Party of the United States]] which advocated the violent removal of the [[United States government]].  After the groups founder, Harold Ware, was killed in an automobile collision in 1935, Abt married [[Jessica Smith]], Ware's widow.

Abt was also a member of the [[Harold Ware|Ware group]], a group of American governmental employees in the 1930's also belonging to the [[Communist Party of the United States]] which advocated the violent removal of the [[United States government]].  After the groups founder, Harold Ware, was killed in an automobile collision in 1935, Abt married [[Jessica Smith]], Ware's widow.