His parents named him after Woodrow Wilson, then Governor of New Jersey and the Democratic candidate who was elected as President of the United States in fall 1912. Guthrie was born July 14, 1912, in Okemah, a small town in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma, the son of Nora Belle (née Sherman) and Charles Edward Guthrie. Woody Guthrie's Okfuskee County, Oklahoma, childhood home as it appeared in 1979 His first two daughters also died of the disease. Woody died in 1967 from complications of Huntington's disease. His son Arlo Guthrie became nationally known as a musician. Guthrie was married three times and fathered eight children. He said it was a response to what he felt was the overplaying of Irving Berlin's ' God Bless America' on the radio. In February 1940 he wrote his most famous song, ' This Land Is Your Land'. He left the station, ending up in New York where he wrote and recorded his 1940 album Dust Bowl Ballads, based on his experiences during the 1930s, which earned him the nickname the 'Dust Bowl Troubadour'. With the outbreak of World War II and the non-aggression pact the Soviet Union had signed with Germany in 1939, the anti-Stalin owners of KFVD radio were not comfortable with Guthrie's political leanings after he wrote a song praising the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact and the Soviet partition of Poland. Throughout his life, Guthrie was associated with United States communist groups, although he did not appear to belong to any. He worked at Los Angeles radio station KFVD, achieving some fame from playing hillbilly music, made friends with Will Geer and John Steinbeck, and wrote a column for the communist newspaper People's World from May 1939 to January 1940. He married at 19, but with the advent of the dust storms that marked the Dust Bowl period, he left his wife and three children to join the thousands of Okies who were migrating to California looking for employment. Guthrie was brought up by middle-class parents in Okemah, Oklahoma. He frequently performed with the message ' This machine kills fascists' displayed on his guitar. Songwriters who have acknowledged Guthrie as a major influence on their work include Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Johnny Cash, Bruce Springsteen, Robert Hunter, Harry Chapin, John Mellencamp, Pete Seeger, Andy Irvine, Joe Strummer, Billy Bragg, Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Jeff Tweedy, Tom Paxton, Brian Fallon, Sean Bonnette, and Sixto Rodríguez. Dust Bowl Ballads, Guthrie's album of songs about the Dust Bowl period, was included on Mojo magazine's list of 100 Records That Changed The World, and many of his recorded songs are archived in the Library of Congress. Guthrie wrote hundreds of country, folk, and children's songs, along with ballads and improvised works. He has inspired several generations both politically and musically with songs such as ' This Land Is Your Land', written in response to the American exceptionalist song ' God Bless America'.

His work focused on themes of American socialism and anti-fascism.

Woodrow Wilson Guthrie ( / ˈ ɡ ʌ θ r i/ July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) was an American singer-songwriter, one of the most significant figures in American folk music. Merchant Marine World War II Victory Medal

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