[1] Ran for Congress from New York State as a candidate of the American Labor Party.
Father: Rockwell Kent, Sr.
Mother: Sara Ann Holgate
Wife: Kathleen Whiting (m. 1908, div. 1925, five children)
Son: Rockwell Kent III (b. 1909)
Daughter: Kathleen (b. 1911)
Son: Karl (b. 1911, d. 1915)
Daughter: Clara (b. 1913)
Daughter: Hildegarde ("Barbara", b. 1915)
Son: Gordon (b. 1920)
Wife: Frances Lee Higgins (m. 1926, div. 1940)
Mistress: Salamina (in Greenland, 1931-35)
Wife: Shirley Johnstone ("Sally", m. 1940)
High School: Horace Mann School
University: Columbia University (1900-03)
Conservatory: New York School of Art
International Workers Order President
National Council of American-Soviet Friendship Chairman (1957-71)
Lenin Peace Prize 1967
Assisted by the ACLU
HUAC Hearings 1939
McCarthy Hearings 1-Jul-1953
Took the Fifth 1-Jul-1953
Traveled to the USSR 1958
Author of books:
It's Me O Lord: the Autobiography of Rockwell Kent (1955, memoir)
AKA Rockwell Kent, Jr.