Dallet, Joe, 1907-1937

Joseph Dallet, Jr., born into an affluent family on Long Island, became a labor organizer and Communist Party activist. He volunteered with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, and served in Spain as Commissar in the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion, a unit made up of both American and Canadian volunteers. He was killed in action in October 1937. Dallet was married twice, first to Barbara Rand, then to Katherine (Kitty) Puening, who subsequently married J. Robert Oppenheimer. Most of Dallet's political work took place in the Midwest, and he ran for mayor of Youngstown, Ohio, on the communist ticket.

From the description of Joseph Dallet, Jr. papers, 1926-1946. (New York University). WorldCat record id: 60861313

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