[1] Formerly Democratic, switched to Republican in 1939.
Father: Herman Willkie (attorney, b. 1857)
Mother: Henrietta (attorney)
Sister: Julia
Brother: Robert
Brother: Fred
Brother: Edward
Sister: Charlotte
Wife: Edith Wilk (librarian, m. 12-Jan-1918)
Son: Philip (b. 7-Dec-1919)
Mistress: Irita Van Doren
Military School: Culver Military Academy (summer 1906)
High School: Elwood High School, Elwood, IN (1909)
University: BA, Indiana University Bloomington (1913)
Teacher: High School, Coffeyville, KS (one year, 1913)
University: Oberlin College (briefly, 1914)
Law School: LLB, Indiana University Bloomington (1916)
Member of the Board of 20th Century Fox Chairman (10-Apr-1942 to 8-Oct-1944)
Commonwealth & Southern Corporation Corporate Counsel (1929), President (1933)
Firestone Legal Department
American Legion
Freemasonry
Indiana State Bar Association
NAACP Honorary Life Member
Young Men's Christian Association Coffeyville, KS
Beta Theta Pi Fraternity 1912
Traveled to the USSR Sep-1942
German Ancestry
Author of books:
One World (1943)
AKA Lewis Wendell Willkie