Biography
Lois de Lafayette Washburn was an antisemitic pamphleteer active in Chicago and the Puget Sound region. She helped organize the American Gentile Protective Association and later worked with Frank W. Clark in Tacoma’s National Liberty Party. She sometimes published under the name TNT. She was named in the January 3, 1944 Washington indictment alleging conspiracy to undermine military loyalty under the Smith Act. The mass trial ended in a mistrial on December 7, 1944. The indictment was dismissed in December 1946; no conviction resulted in this case.
