page_title: Bartley Crum
section_title: Wendell Willkie
hierarchical_section_title: Bartley Crum / Career / Wendell Willkie
caption_attribution_description: English: Republican politician Wendell L. Willkie, one of the founders of Freedom House, on the cover of TIME Magazine issue of July 31, 1939.
context_page_description: Bartley Crum, AKA Bartley C. Crum, was a mid-20th-century American lawyer, who became prominent as a member of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, his book on that experience, and for defending targets of HUAC, particularly the Hollywood Ten and Paul Robeson.
context_section_description: Crum worked in the 1940 and 1944 campaigns of U.S. presidential candidate Wendell Willkie.  In 1941, he became chairman for the Western US of "Fight for Freedom, Inc.," an group favoring intervention in World War II (in alignment with Wilkie).
  In 1943, Crum served as special counsel on FDR's Fair Employment Practices Committee.  He also served as WilIke's liaison to FDR via David Niles.  When Wilkie failed to get the nomination, Crum helped form "Independent Republicans for Roosevelt" and campaigned for FDR, occasionally with Harry S. Truman.
  In October 1944, Crum served as an attorney for Harry Bridges.  In November 1944, Crum sent a letter to the Civil Service Commission on behalf of Larry Resner on the subject of loyalty charges.
  On March 18, 1945, Crum signed a statement issued by the National Federation for Constitutional Liberties, advertised in the Daily Worker.  In September 1945, Crum chaired a rally of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee (JAFRC), which featured an overseas call from Harold Laski.  By year end, Crum's clients included Owl Drug, United Drug, and Borden's Milk.  He was national vice president of the NLG, national co-chair of the CIO-PAC, and California chair of United China War Relief.  Rumor had it that he would succeed Harold L. Ickes as United States Secretary of the Interior.
caption: For the 1940 and 1944 presidential elections, Crum supported Wendell Willkie (here, on the cover of Time magazine, July 31, 1939
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