Early Life
Cudahy was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of Patrick Cudahy the meat packing industrialist and Anna Cudahy. He graduated from Harvard University and then attended the University of Wisconsin Law School.
He served during World War I as a Lieutenant in Company B of the U.S. Army's 339th Infantry Regiment. This Regiment was part of the Polar Bear Expedition which was sent to North Russia to intervene on behalf of the anti-communist forces in the Russian Civil War. On November 14, 1918, Lt. Cudahy led the counter-attack that succeeded in breaking through and routing the 1,000 Bolshevik troops that on November 11 had encircled and attacked the 600 American, Canadian and Royal Scots soldiers who were holding the village of Toulgas on the Northern Dvina River. However, his eventual disillusionment with the campaign in North Russia led him to write (under a pseudonym) the book Archangel: The American War with Russia.
Back in the United States, Cudahy headed his family's real estate company, building the Cudahy Tower Apartments on the shore of Lake Michigan in Milwaukee.
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