Wisconsin Progressive Party | |
---|---|
Leader | Philip La Follette Robert M. La Follette, Jr. |
Founded | May 19, 1934 |
Dissolved | March 17, 1946 |
Split from | Republican Party (in part) Democratic Party (in part) |
Ideology | |
Political position | Left-wing[1] |
National affiliation | National Progressives of America (1940–1946) |
Colors | Green |
The Wisconsin Progressive Party (1934–1946) was a political party that briefly held a dominant role in Wisconsin politics.[2]
In fact, the program that La Follette ran on — taxing the rich, cracking down on Wall Street abuses, empowering workers to organize unions, defending small farmers, breaking up corporate trusts, strengthening public utilities — fueled a resurgence of left-wing populist movements across the upper Midwest: the Non-Partisan League of North Dakota, the Farmer-Labor Party of Minnesota and the Progressive Party of Wisconsin.
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)