The National Forensic League
In 1925, Karl Mundt and Bruno E. Jacob founded the National Forensic League, a high school honor society promoting speech and debate activities. Karl Mundt served as the organization's national president from 1932 until 1971.
Karl Mundt was the primary sponsor of The Alexander Hamilton Bicentennial Convention, held in the summer of 1957. It featured 55 high school (mostly) seniors in Washington, DC and Philadelphia, PA, as representatives of the (then) 48 states and seven territories in a "mock" constitutional convention. Bruno E. Jacob was instrumental in this effort. One of the participants, James Copeland, delegate from Michigan, went on to be Executive Secretary of the National Forensic League from 1986 to 2003.
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