European-American patriot will be missed by many!
by Louis Andrews (with commentary at the end by David Duke)

I’M SAD TO REPORT that Sam Francis died last night of complications from his recent heart surgery. Funeral arrangements are pending.

The following is a brief biographical sketch on Samuel Francis (pictured).

Samuel Francis was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on April 29, 1947. He was educated at The Johns Hopkins University (B.A., 1969) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, from which he received a Ph.D. in modern history in 1979. From 1977 to 1981, he was a policy analyst at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., specializing in foreign affairs, terrorism, and intelligence and internal security issues. From 1981 to 1986, he was legislative assistant for national security affairs to Senator John P. East (Republican – North Carolina) and worked closely with the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism, of which Senator East was a member.

Mr. Francis joined the editorial staff of The Washington Times in 1986 as an editorial writer. He served as Deputy Editorial Page Editor of The Washington Times from 1987 to 1991, as Acting Editorial Page Editor from February to May, 1991, and as a staff columnist through September, 1995.

Mr. Francis received the Distinguished Writing Award for Editorial Writing of the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) in both 1989 and 1990. He was a finalist for the National Journalism Award (Walker Stone Prize) for Editorial Writing of the Scripps Howard Foundation in 1989 and 1990.

His twice-weekly column was nationally syndicated through Creators Syndicate.

Mr. Francis was the author of several articles and studies of international and domestic terrorism, including The Soviet Strategy of Terror (1981; rev. ed., 1985).

A prolific writer on issues of public policy, he published articles or reviews in numerous newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, U.S.A. Today, National Review, The Occidental Quarterly, A Journal of Western Thought and Opinion, of which he was Associate and Book Editor, and Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, of which he was a Contributing Editor and for which he wrote a monthly column “Principalities and Powers.”

He was the author of Power and History: The Political Thought of James Burnham (1984) and Beautiful Losers: Essays on the Failure of American Conservatism (1993) and a number of other books. He was also the editor of the forthcoming Race and the American Future (Washington Summit Publishers, 2005).

_____________________________A note from David Duke — I have known Sam Francis for almost two decades. When many political pundits were afraid of associating with the “former KKK’er turned elected official” Sam wasn’t. When I entered some presidential primaries he invited me to the Editorial Board of The Washington Times where I was asked to explain and expound on my Presidential Platform. Sam was right there in the lion’s pit –sometimes backing me up from some scurrilous attacks before I had a chance to respond. I remember well the dinner we had that night in the Orleans restaurant in Arlington when we shared each other’s views of the world and each found a true brother in the Cause. Many times Sam Francis defended me in his newspaper columns and dared to stand up against the anti-White racists and the Jewish supremacists.

So the loss of Sam Francis is both a great loss for me personally and a terrible loss for the Movement as a whole. We will all miss his wit, his passion for our principles, his love for our people, and yes, his courage. He was courageous, a man who was a nationally successful columnist who put it all on the line to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

The best way we can remember Sam is to rededicate ourselves to the Cause that he lived his life for.