J. Parnell Thomas
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John Parnell Thomas was an American stockbroker and politician. He was elected to seven terms as a U.S. Representative from New Jersey as a Republican, serving from 1937 to 1950.
John Parnell Thomas in 1939 in Washington, D.C. on February. 2, 1939
The House Committee on Un-American Activities, popularly the House Un-American Activities Committee, was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives created in 1938. Their
J. Parnell Thomas
…furious Eisenhower. After the Republican Party gained control of the 80th Congress in the November 1946 elections, Thomas was appointed chairman of the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)–during that period, also called the "Thomas Committee." In May 1947, Thomas traveled to Hollywood to meet with film industry executives with a…
Chairman Martin Dies of the House Un-American Activities Committee proofreads his October 26, 1938, letter replying to President Roosevelt's attack on the committee.
Lee Slater Overman headed the first congressional investigation of American communism in 1919.
Texas Democrat Martin Dies Jr. served as chair of the Special Committee on Un-American Activities, predecessor to the permanent committee, for its entire seven-year duration.
Democrat Francis E. Walter of Pennsylvania was chair of HUAC from 1955 until his death in 1963.