Wisconsin Progressive Party
| Progressive Party Progressive Party |
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|---|---|
| founding | 1934 |
| resolution | 1946 |
| Alignment | Progressivism |
The Wisconsin Progressive Party was only in Wisconsin active political party in the United States . It was founded in 1934 by Robert M. La Follette junior and Philip La Follette as a split from the Republican Party in Wisconsin.
prehistory
In 1900, Robert M. La Follette Sr. founded the Progressive Wing within the Wisconsin Republican Party. In 1912 he tried to found a Progressive Party, but lost control to Theodore Roosevelt, who became his bitter opponent. Roosevelt's Progressive Party disbanded in 1916 and La Follette formed a new Progressive Party in 1924. He ran in the same year for the presidential election , he ran as a candidate, but could only win the electors of Wisconsin. 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, he continued his father's policy in Wisconsin within the Republican Party, founded the magazine 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.
history
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 ). The party won an overwhelming landslide victory in Wisconsin in the 1934 election. Philip La Follette, who was voted out of office as Republican governor in 1932, has now won the gubernatorial election as a candidate for the Progressives. Robert La Follette was re-elected to the United States Senate, no longer a Republican, but a Progressive candidate.
In 1936 Philip La Follette was re-elected as governor. In the 1936 presidential election , the Progressives supported the re-election of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Philip La Follette founded the National Progressive Party in Madison in April 1938 , but it was unsuccessful throughout the USA. He was defeated in the 1938 gubernatorial elections. During the 1930s and 1940s, the party was also able to send a number of MPs to the United States House of Representatives .
The party weakened in the 1940 elections, and Robert La Follette only narrowly maintained his majority. After the dissolution of the Wisconsin Progressive Party in 1946, he ran in the Republican primary and was defeated by Joseph McCarthy .
literature
- Robert S. Maxwell: La Follette and the Rise of the Progressives in Wisconsin. Russell & Russell, New York 1973, ISBN 0-84621-696-5