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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaLUDLOW, Louis Leon
(1873—1950)
LUDLOW, Louis Leon, a Representative from Indiana; born on a farm near Connersville, Fayette County, Ind., June 24, 1873; attended the grade and high schools; moved to Indianapolis, Ind., in 1892 and became a reporter and later a political writer; Washington correspondent for Indiana and Ohio newspapers and member of the Congressional Press Galleries 1901-1929; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-first and to the nine succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1929-January 3, 1949); election to the Seventy-first Congress was unsuccessfully contested by Ralph E. Updike; was not a candidate for renomination in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress; resumed work as a newspaper correspondent until his death in Washington, D.C., November 28, 1950; interment in Rock Creek Cemetery.
Burns, Richard Dean, and W. Addams Dixon. “Foreign Policy and the ’Democratic Myth’: The Debate on the Ludlow Amendment.” Mid-America
47 (October 1965): 288-306.
Butler, James J. “Rep. Louis Ludlow Recalls: He Was In the Press Gallery When.” Editor and Publisher
81 (10 July 1948): 26.
Griffin, Walter R. “Louis Ludlow and the War Referendum Crusade, 1935-1941.” Indiana Magazine of History
64 (December 1968): 267-88.
Ludlow, Louis. From cornfield to press gallery; adventures and reminiscences of a veteran Washington correspondent
. Washington, D.C.: W.F. Roberts Co., 1924.
———. Hell or Heaven
. Boston, Mass.: The Stratford Company, [1937].
———. In the heart of Hoosierland: A story of the pioneers, based on many actual experiences
. Washington, D.C.: Pioneer Book Co., 1925.
———. Senator Solomon Spiffledink
. Washington, D.C.: Pioneer Book Company, 1927.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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