1. John Cudahy was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of Anna and Patrick John Cudahy, a meat packing industrialist.
12 Facts About John Cudahy
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John Cudahy graduated from Harvard University in 1910 and from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1913.
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John Cudahy served during World War I as a lieutenant in Company B of the US Army's 339th Infantry Regiment.
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On November 14,1918, John Cudahy led a counter-attack that succeeded in breaking through and routing the 1,000 Bolshevik troops that on November 11 had encircled and attacked the 600 American, Canadian, and Royal Scots soldiers who were holding the village of Tulgas on the Northern Dvina.
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Back in the United States, John Cudahy headed his family's real estate company, building the John Cudahy Tower Apartments on the shore of Lake Michigan in Milwaukee.
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Between 1933 and 1940, John Cudahy served the United States as minister to several European nations.
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From September 6,1933, until April 23,1937, John Cudahy served as the American ambassador to Poland.
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From August 23,1937, John Cudahy served as minister to the Irish Free State, which became the Republic of Ireland in December 1937.
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In January 1940, John Cudahy became both the ambassador to Belgium and the minister to Luxembourg.
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John Cudahy was forced to leave these posts after Germany occupied Luxembourg and Belgium in May 1940, and the nations set up governments-in-exile.
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John Cudahy became an embarrassment to Washington, which was officially neutral.
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John Cudahy died in September 1943, when he was thrown from a horse on his Brown Deer estate north of Milwaukee.