Ralph Baerman
Ralph Berland Baerman (b. 4 October 1901 in Rushford, Fillmore, Minnesota; d. 12 August 1969 in Salem, Marion, Oregon) was Gerald L. K. Smith's Washington DC contact man who helped him in publishing his weekly Washington DC newsletter. It was simply called The Letter. Baerman's wife (∞ 1943) Magdalene "Madeline" Celeste, née Everson (1910–1988) helped in the publication of the newsletter.[1] Smith’s Nationalist News Service was associated with the newsletter project.
Baerman, the son of William Frederick Baerman (1868–1943) and his wife Christena, née Berland (1871–1939), was formerly a liberal and an English teacher at Winona Senior High School in Winona, Minnesota from September 1927 to June 1934. Thereafter he moved to Washington DC.[2]
In 1941, he published with his co-author Charles Custer Pickert (born Charles Custer Pickett on 27 May 1883) The Way Out for America. The book was issued by the Institute for Christian Economic Action, St. Paul, Minnesota. Ralph Baerman was head of the Resolution Committee, which drew up the platform at the America First Party Convention in August 1944 in Detroit. Baerman had also spoken for the Citizens U. S. A. Committee.
