![]() Congressman (R-Minnesota (6th)) from 1907 to 1917, was one of just fifty House members to vote against (373-50) the entry of the U.S. ![]() He was the third child of Swedish immigrant Charles August Lindbergh ( birth name Carl Månsson) (1859–1924), and only child of his second wife, Evangeline Lodge Land Lindbergh (1876–1954), of Detroit although the Lindberghs separated in 1909 when their son was seven. 1910Īlthough born in Detroit, Michigan, on February 4, 1902, Charles Agustus Lindbergh spent most of his childhood in Little Falls, Minnesota, and Washington, D.C. ![]() 4.4 "WE", the US and Latin American "Tours", and the Spirit retiresĬharles A.4.2 May 20–21, 1927: Lindbergh's New York to Paris flight.3 Air Mail pilot, pioneer, and promoter.In his later years, Lindbergh became a prolific prize-winning author, international explorer, inventor, and environmentalist. Roosevelt had refused to reinstate his Army Air Corps colonel's commission that he had resigned in April 1941. Although Lindbergh was a leader in the anti-war America First movement, he nevertheless strongly supported the war effort after Pearl Harbor and flew many combat missions in the Pacific Theater of World War II as a civilian consultant even though President Franklin D. out of the world conflict, as had his father, Congressman Charles August Lindbergh, during World War I. The Lindberghs returned to the United States in April 1939.īefore the United States formally entered World War II, Lindbergh had been an outspoken advocate of keeping the U.S. Mencken, as ". the biggest story since the resurrection." The kidnapping eventually led to the Lindbergh family being "driven into voluntary exile" in Europe to which they sailed in secrecy from New York under assumed names in late December 1935 to "seek a safe, secluded residence away from the tremendous public hysteria" in America. In March 1932, his infant son, Charles, Jr., was kidnapped and murdered in what was soon dubbed the "Crime of the Century". In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Lindbergh used his fame to promote the development of both commercial aviation and Air Mail services in the United States and the Americas. Army Air Corps Reserve officer, was also awarded the nation's highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his historic exploit. As a result of this flight Lindbergh was the first person in history to be in New York one day and Paris the next. Air Mail pilot, Lindbergh emerged suddenly from virtual obscurity to instantaneous world fame as the result of his Orteig Prize-winning solo non-stop flight on May 20–21, 1927, made from Roosevelt Field in Garden City on New York's Long Island to Le Bourget Field in Paris, France, a distance of nearly 3,600 statute miles (5,800 km), in the single-seat, single-engine purpose-built Ryan monoplane Spirit of St. University of Wisconsin-Madison (left in second year)Ĭharles Augustus Lindbergh (Febru– August 26, 1974), nicknamed Slim, Lucky Lindy, and The Lone Eagle, was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist.Īs a 25-year-old U.S. Charles Lindbergh, photo by Harris & Ewing
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