Louis Ludlow
Louis Leon Ludlow was a Democratic Indiana congressman. He proposed the Ludlow Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1938 requiring a national referendum on any U.S. declaration of war except in cases of direct attack. The amendment was rejected by Congress by a narrow margin and after an appeal from President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Early and personal life
Ludlow was born on a farm near Connersville, Fayette County, Indiana, on June 24, 1873, as one of eight children of Henry Louis and Isabelle Ludlow. He was married on September 17, 1896, to Katherine Huber of Irvington, Indiana, the society editor on the Sentinel in Washington.Career
He moved to Indianapolis in 1892, where he became a reporter and later a political writer. Ludlow was a Washington correspondent for Indiana and Ohio newspapers and a member of the Congressional Press Galleries from 1901 to 1929. He was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-first and the nine succeeding Congresses from 1929 to 1949.He proposed the Ludlow Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1938 requiring a national referendum on any U.S. declaration of war except in cases of direct attack. The amendment was rejected by Congress by a vote of 209 to 188.
After his political career, Ludlow returned to working as a newspaper correspondent.