Wisconsin Progressive Party

The Wisconsin Progressive Party was only active in Wisconsin political party in the United States. It was founded in 1934 by Robert M. La Follette Jr. and Philip La Follette as a splinter group of the Republican Party in Wisconsin.

Prehistory

In 1900, Robert M. La Follette senior had founded the progressive wing of the Republican Party of Wisconsin. In 1912, he tried to start a Progressive Party, but lost control of Theodore Roosevelt, who became his bitter opponent. Roosevelt's Progressive Party broke up in 1916 and 1924 founded La Follette a new Progressive Party. He joined in the same year on the presidential elections, he ran as a candidate, but only won the electoral Wisconsin. After the 1924 election, the United States Progressive Party quickly disappeared from the scene. La Follette remained until his death the following year as a Republican in the Senate of the United States, as his successor in 1925, his son Robert M. La Follette junior was selected. This led, together with his brother Philip within the Republican Party of his father in Wisconsin politics continues founded the magazine The Progressive and fought for reforms. He was opposed by the political left against the policies of President Herbert Hoover and supported the 1932 election campaign of Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt. Philip La Follette won the 1930 Republican primaries in Wisconsin and was subsequently elected governor.

History

1934 sparked the run by the brothers La Follette grouping the tape with the Republican Party of Wisconsin and called her father's party at the national level as Wisconsin ( rarely also called the Progressive Party of Wisconsin ) Progressive Party back to life. In the elections of 1934 the party won an overwhelming landslide victory in Wisconsin. Philip La Follette, who had initially been voted as a Republican governor in 1932, then won the gubernatorial election as a candidate of the Progressive. Robert La Follette was - no longer as a Republican, but as a candidate of the Progressive - again elected to the Senate of the United States.

1936 Philip La Follette was re-elected as governor. In the presidential elections of 1936, the progressives supported the re-election of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Philip La Follette founded in April 1938 in Madison, the National Progressive Party, but across the U.S. was unsuccessful. He was defeated in 1938 in the gubernatorial elections. During the 1930s and 1940s, the party was able to send a number of MPs in the House of Representatives of the United States.

In the elections of 1940 the party weakened, Robert La Follette maintained its majority only just. After the dissolution of the Wisconsin Progressive Party in 1946, he ran in the Republican primary and was defeated by Joseph McCarthy.