Leon Milton Birkhead

Rev. Leon Milton Birkhead (April 28, 1885– Dec. 1, 1954) was an American Unitarian minister who founded the Friends of Democracy in 1937 "after two trips to Germany had caused him alarm over the growth of the Nazi movement and what he believed to be its associations in the United States." He opposed Nazi sympathizers in America in the 1930s. He was in dispute with Gerald Burton Winrod from the 1920s. As the author of The Religion of Free Man (1929) he suggested dropping "God out of consideration," and represented the humanist rather than theist wing of the modern Unitarian church.

For additional information see "Leon Milton Birkhead" by Jim Grebe in the Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography. https://www.uudb.org/birkhead-leon-milton/