Francis Xavier Waldron, best known by the pseudonym Eugene Dennis and Tim Ryan, was an American communist politician and union organizer, best remembered as the long-time leader of the Communist Party USA and as named party in Dennis v. United States, a famous McCarthy Era Supreme Court case.
Dennis in 1948 mugshot
Dennis's grave at Forest Home Cemetery
The Communist Party USA, officially the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), also known as the American Communist Party, is a communist party in the United States which was established in 1919 after a split in the Socialist Party of America following the Russian Revolution.
Charter for a local unit of the CPUSA dated October 24, 1919
The Washington Commonwealth Federation newspaper after the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact (original scan)
The 30th National Convention was held in Chicago in 2014
Robert G. Thompson and Benjamin J. Davis leaving the courthouse during the Smith Act trials of Communist Party leaders in 1949–1958