A. C. Townley | |
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Personal details | |
Born | December 30, 1880 Browns Valley, Minnesota, U.S. |
Died | November 7, 1959 (aged 78) Minot, North Dakota, U.S. |
Political party | Nonpartisan League |
Other political affiliations | Socialist Party of North Dakota |
Spouse |
Margaret Rose Teenan
(m. 1911; died 1944) |
Arthur Charles Townley (December 30, 1880 – November 7, 1959) was an American political organizer best known as the founder of the National Non-Partisan League (NPL), a farmers' organization which had considerable political success in the states of North Dakota and Minnesota during the second half of the 1910s.[1]