Progressive Party (1924)
| Progressive Party Progressive Party |
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|---|---|
| founding | 1924 |
| resolution | 1946 |
| Alignment | Progressivism |
The United States Progressive Party was a political party in the United States . It was founded in Wisconsin in 1924 by Robert M. La Follette Sr. to support La Follette's candidacy in the 1924 presidential election .
La Follette was a member of the Republican Party and in 1900 founded a progressive group within the Wisconsin Republican Party. In 1912 he lost to William Howard Taft in the Republican primary for the 1912 presidential election . Theodore Roosevelt , who was also defeated by Taft , then founded the Progressive Party (for which Roosevelt was elected president) with progressive-minded members . La Follette, who was hostile to Roosevelt, did not join this party.
After the first incarnation of the Progressive Party broke up after 1916, La Follet founded a new Progressive Party in 1924. In the presidential election in the same year he ran as a candidate, his vice-presidential candidate was Burton K. Wheeler , Senator of the Democratic Party from Montana . The party, which, among other things, called for the nationalization of the railways, mainly represented farmers and workers and was supported by the Socialist Party of America , the American Federation of Labor and numerous railway associations. In the presidential election, La Follette received a total of 16.6% of the vote, as well as the 13 electors from Wisconsin, where he reached just under 54%. In other states, too, especially those that had already voted for Theodore Roosevelt with a majority in 1912, La Follette received a high percentage of votes (for example 45.2% in North Dakota, 41.3% in Minnesota, 33.1% in California) , but was overtaken there by the Republican Calvin Coolidge . The Democratic Party candidate John W. Davis , on the other hand, hardly played a role in the progressive strongholds and achieved blatantly poor results in some cases (Minnesota 6.8%, North Dakota 7.0%, Wisconsin 8.1%). After the 1924 election, the United States Progressive Party quickly disappeared from the scene.
La Follette remained a Republican in the United States Senate until his death the following year ; his son Robert M. La Follette junior was elected to succeed him in 1925 . Together with his brother Philip La Follette , he continued his father's policy in Wisconsin within the Republican Party, founded the magazine La Follette's Weekly , from 1929 The Progressive , and campaigned for reforms. He stood in opposition from the left to the policies of President Herbert Hoover and supported the election campaign of the Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 . Philip La Follette won the Wisconsin Republican primary in 1930 and was subsequently elected governor.
In 1934, the group led by the La Follette brothers broke ties with the Wisconsin Republican Party and re-established their father's party at the state level as the Wisconsin Progressive Party (more rarely called the Progressive Party of Wisconsin ).
See also
literature
- Robert S. Maxwell: La Follette and the Rise of the Progressives in Wisconsin. Russell & Russell, New York 1973, ISBN 0-84621-696-5
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/party.php?year=1924&type=national&no=3&f=1&off=0&elect=0 Accessed March 2, 2009
- ↑ http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/data.php?year=1924&datatype=national&def=1&f=1&off=0&elect=0 Accessed March 3, 2009