Researching Charles Coughlin
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The name Charles means "Man, strong" and is of German origin.
Records of Charles Coughlin on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Charles Coughlin and the Coughlin Family History
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Coughlin Family History Databases
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Coughlin Forums
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Miscellaneous Coughlin Databases
Check out the Ellis Island Database for information on Charles Coughlin. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Charles Coughlin
Charles Coughlin
Charles Edward Coughlin ( October 25, 1891 – October 27, 1979), commonly known as Father Coughlin or the radio priest, was a Canadian-American Roman Catholic priest who was based in the United States near Detroit. He was the founding priest of the National Shrine of the Little Flower church. He was one of the first political leaders to use radio to reach a mass audience: during the 1930s, an estimated 30 million listeners tuned to his weekly broadcasts.
Coughlin was born in Canada to working-class Irish Catholic parents. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1916, and, in 1923, was assigned to the National Shrine of the Little Flower in Detroit, Michigan. Spurred by Ku Klux Klan-orchestrated cross burnings, Coughlin began broadcasting his sermons. As his broadcasts became more political, he became increasingly popular.
Initially, Coughlin was a vocal supporter of Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal, but he became a harsh critic of Roosevelt, accusing him of being too friendly to bankers. In 1934, he established a political organization called the National Union for Social Justice. Its platform called for monetary reforms, nationalization of major industries and railroads, and protection of labor rights. The membership ran into the millions, but it was not well organized locally.
After hinting at attacks on Jewish bankers, Coughlin began to use his radio program to broadcast antisemitic commentary. In the late 1930s, he supported some of the fascist policies of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Emperor Hirohito of Japan. The broadcasts have been described as "a variation of the Fascist agenda applied to American culture". His chief topics were political and economic rather than religious, using the slogan "Social Justice". After the outbreak of World War II in Europe in 1939, the Roosevelt administration finally forced the cancellation of his radio program and forbade distribution by mail of his newspaper, Social Justice. Coughlin largely vanished from the public arena, working as a parish pastor until retiring in 1966. He died in 1979.
Source: Charles Coughlin, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Coughlin
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