- Jim Anderton
James Patrick Anderton, (born 21 January 1938) almost always referred to as Jim Anderton, is leader of the Progressive Party, a political party in the New Zealand Parliament. He has served in Parliament since 1984. He served as Deputy Prime Minister from 1999 to 2002. - Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., also known as T.R. and to the public (but never to friends and intimates) as Teddy, was the twenty-sixth President of the United States, and a leader of the Republican Party and of the Progressive Movement, as well as being the youngest President in United States history, at age 42. He served in many roles including Governor of New York, historian, naturalist, explorer, author, and soldier. - Henry A. Wallace
Henry Agard Wallace (October 7, 1888 - November 18, 1965) was the thirty-third Vice President of the United States (1941-45), the eleventh Secretary of Agriculture (1933-40), and the tenth Secretary of Commerce (1945-46). In the 1948 presidential election, Wallace was the nominee of the Progressive Party. - Matt Robson
Matthew Peter (Matt) Robson (5 January 1950 -) is a New Zealand politician. He is deputy leader of the Progressive Party, and served in the Parliament from 1996 to 2005, first as a member of the Alliance, then as a Progressive. Robson was born in Brisbane, Australia. He attained an MA (Hons) in Political Studies and later studied law, and worked both as a lawyer and a teacher. He also spent three years in the Netherlands as a technical editor. - Helen Suzman
Helen Suzman was born Helen Gavronsky on 7 November, 1917 in Germiston, Gauteng, South Africa as the daughter of Lithuanian-Jewish immigrants. She was an anti-apartheid activist and politician. She studied as an economist and statistician at Witwatersrand University. She married Dr. Moses Suzman when she was 20, and had two daughters with him before returning to university as a lecturer in 1944. - Bob Kiss
Bob Kiss (born April 1, 1947) was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives from January of 2001 until he stepped down upon assuming office as mayor of Burlington, following his election to that office on March 7, 2006. In the election, he prevailed over opponents Hinda Miller, Democrat, and Kevin Curley, Republican. He is a member of the Progressive Coalition and one of a handful of Progressives who have held seats in the Vermont House of Representatives. - Roberto Jefferson
Roberto Jefferson Monteiro Francisco is a Brazilian politician. He was born on June 14 1953 in Petrópolis, in the state of Rio de Janeiro. He is the son of Neusa Dalva Monteiro Francisco and Roberto Francisco. Roberto Jefferson is married to Ecila Brasil Jefferson Francisco. He finished his High School studies at Werneck School in Petrópolis, and he received a law degree in 1979 from the Estácio de Sá University in Rio de Janeiro. - Robert M. La Follette Sr.
Robert Marion La Follette, Sr. (June 14, 1855 - June 18, 1925) (also known as "Fighting Bob" La Follette) was an American politician who served as a U.S. Congressman, the 20th Governor of Wisconsin from 1901 - 1906, and Senator from Wisconsin from 1905 - 1925 as a Republican He ran for President of the United States as the nominee of his own Progressive Party in the 1924 elections, carrying Wisconsin and 17% of the national popular vote. - Halldór Ásgrímsson
Halldór Ásgrímsson (born September 8, 1947) was the 22nd Prime Minister of Iceland. The leader of the Progressive Party 1994-2006, he took over as Prime Minister on September 15, 2004, from the Independence Party leader, Davíð Oddsson, who had held the office for a record thirteen years. On June 5, 2006, following poor results in municipal elections, … - David Zuckerman
David Zuckerman is a farmer and a Progressive member of the Vermont House of Representatives, representing Chittenden-3-4 district. Zuckerman ran for the Vermont House in 1994 while enrolled at the University of Vermont. He lost by only 59 votes, but came back two years later to become the fourth Progressive Party member to serve in the State House. - Tony Leon
Anthony James Leon (born December 15, 1956) is a South African politician and the former leader of the Democratic Alliance, South Africa's main opposition party and former leader of the opposition. - Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir
Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir is an Icelandic politician and Chairman of the Social Democratic Alliance ("Samfylkingin"), the second largest political party in Iceland's parliament, the Althing. She was appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iceland on May 24 2007. Ingibjörg started her political carrier in the Women's Alliance ("Samtök um kvennalista"), a party she represented in Reykjavík's City Council from 1982 to 1988. - Burton K. Wheeler
Burton Kendall Wheeler (February 27, 1882 - January 6, 1975) was a Montana politician of the Democratic Party and a United States Senator from 1923 until 1947. Wheeler was born in Hudson, Massachusetts. He grew up in Massachusetts, attending the public schools and working as a stenographer in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from the University of Michigan law school in 1905. He initially headed for Seattle, Washington, but after getting off the train in Butte, … - William Allen White
William Allen White (Born February 10, 1868 in Emporia, Kansas - died January 31, 1944) was a renowned American newspaper editor. He attended the University of Kansas and worked at the Kansas City Star. White purchased his hometown newspaper, "The Emporia Gazette" for $3,000 in 1895. He rocketed to national fame and influence in the Republican party with an August 16, 1896 editorial entitled What's the Matter With Kansas?. - Charlotta Bass
Charlotta Amanda Spears Bass (14 February 1874 –12 April 1969) was an American educator, newspaper publisher-editor, and civil rights activist. Born in Sumter, South Carolina, United States, she moved to California in 1910. Bass published the "California Eagle" from 1912 until 1951. In 1952 Bass became the first African-American woman to run for national office as the Progressive Party's Vice Presidential candidate. Bass died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Los Angeles. - Nicholas Murray Butler
Nicholas Murray Butler (April 2, 1862 - December 7, 1947) was an American philosopher, diplomat, and educator. The co-winner with Jane Addams of the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize, Butler was president of Columbia University from 1902 to 1945, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from 1925 to 1945, and received the 8 Republican Party electoral votes for Vice President of the United States in the 1912 presidential race, after that party's VP nominee, … - Colin Eglin
Colin Wells Eglin is a South African politician. He was born at Sea Point, Cape Town, South Africa on 14 April, 1925. Eglin was a member of Pinelands Municipal Council from 1951-1954. He was elected as a United Party Cape Province Provincial Councillor in 1954 and served until 1958. Eglin was elected unopposed as MP for the Peninsula constituency in 1958. He left the United Party to become a founder member of the Progressive Party in 1959, … - Eusi Kwayana
Eusi Kwayana, born Sydney King, is a Guyanese politician. A cabinet minister in the People's Progressive Party government of 1953, the British Army detained him in 1954. Later he left the PPP to form ASCRIA, a Pan-Africanist grassroots political group which, after a brief flirtation with the People's National Congress of Forbes Burnham, fused into the Working People's Alliance. - Vincent Hallinan
Vincent Hallinan was a lawyer from San Francisco, California. He ran for President of the United States in the 1952 election, as the candidate for Henry Wallace’s Progressive Party and was the third highest polling candidate in the election. He and his wife Vivian were indicted on 14 counts of tax evasion. Vincent was convicted on five counts and was fined $622,000 and sentenced to 18 months in federal prison, after he reported only 20% of his income from 1947 to 1950. - Peter Beinart
Peter Beinart (born 1971) is a journalist and editor-at-large for "The New Republic", having served as editor of TNR from November 1999 until March 2006. He is a graduate of the Buckingham Browne & Nichols School and a member of the class of 1993 at Yale University, where he was a member of the Yale Political Union. - Philip La Follette
Philip Fox La Follette (May 8, 1897-August 18, 1965) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Wisconsin. La Follette was born in Madison, Wisconsin, a member of the politically-prominent] La Follette family, the son of Robert M. La Follette, Sr. and Belle Case La Follette, brother of Robert M. La Follette, Jr., and uncle of Bronson Cutting La Follette. La Follette was governor of Wisconsin from 1931 to 1933 and 1935 to 1939. - Edward M. House
Edward Mandell House (July 26, 1858 - March 28, 1938) was an American diplomat, politician and presidential advisor. Commonly known by the honorific title of Colonel House, he had enormous personal influence with President Woodrow Wilson as his foreign policy advisor until Wilson removed him in 1919. Born to a wealthy Texas landholding family, House was educated in New England prep schools and went on to study at Cornell University in 1877, … - Glen H. Taylor
Glen Hearst Taylor (born April 12, 1904 in Portland, Oregon - died April 28, 1984 in Millbrae, California) was a colorful and controversial politician, businessman and United States Senator from Idaho. He was the vice presidential candidate on the Progressive Party ticket in the 1948 election. Taylor was otherwise a member of the Idaho Democratic Party. Taylor was the son of a wandering preacher. He moved to a homestead near Kooskia, Idaho, … - Albert J. Beveridge
Albert Jeremiah Beveridge (October 6, 1862, Highland County, Ohio - April 27, 1927, Indianapolis, Indiana) was a historian and United States Senator from Indiana. He was born in Ohio, admitted to the Indiana bar in 1887 and practiced law in Indianapolis. He graduated from Indiana Asbury University (now DePauw University) in 1885, with a Ph.B. degree. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. - Thomas Crerar
Thomas Alexander Crerar, PC, CC, LL.D (June 17, 1876 - April 11, 1975) was a western Canadian politician and a leader of the short-lived Progressive Party of Canada. He was born in Molesworth, Ontario, and moved to Manitoba at a young age. Crerar rose to prominence as leader of the Manitoba Grain Growers association in the 1910s. Although he had no experience as an elected official, … - Amos Pinchot
Amos Pinchot (1872 - 1944) was an American political leader of the early 20th century. He never held public office but managed to exert considerable influence in reformist circles and did much to keep Progressive ideas alive in the 1920s. He was the son of James Pinchot, a rich Pennsylvania lumberman who sponsored the conservation movement; his brother was forester Gifford Pinchot. Educated at Yale, he earned a law degree in New York, where he managed his family's estates. - Severino Cavalcanti
Severino José Cavalcanti Ferreira is a Brazilian politician, born in João Alfredo, Pernambuco. He is currently a member of the Progressive Party, despite having changed parties eight times in his career. He was the mayor of João Alfredo, a state deputy, has been a federal deputy since 1995. In 2005, he ran for the presidency of Brazilian chamber of deputies, thinking that the official candidate of the Lula government, Luís Eduardo Greenhalgh, would win. - Bull Connor
Theophilus Eugene "Bull" Connor (July 11 1897, Selma, Alabama - March 10 1973) was a Democratic police official in the Southern U.S. state of Alabama during the American Civil Rights Movement, a member of the Ku Klux Klan, and a staunch advocate of racial segregation. As the Public Safety Commissioner of Birmingham, Alabama, in the 1960s, Connor became a symbol of the fight against integration for using fire hoses and police attack dogs against unarmed, … - Ansley Wilcox
Ansley Wilcox (January 27, 1856 - January 26, 1930) was an American scholar, Oxford graduate, lawyer, civil service reform commissioner, New York political insider and friend of Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt was sworn in as 26th US President at the library of Wilcox's neo-classical style home, the Ansley Wilcox House at 641 Delaware Avenue in Buffalo, New York after the assassination of William McKinley, on September 14, 1901. - Bainbridge Colby
Bainbridge Colby (December 22, 1869 - April 11, 1950) was an American lawyer, a founder of the United States Progressive Party and Woodrow Wilson's last Secretary of State. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he graduated from Williams College and Columbia Law School, and was admitted to the New York bar. He served in the New York State Assembly from 1901 to 1902, was a special assistant to the United States Attorney General in an anti-trust action in 1917, … - James Weinstein
James Weinstein, (July 17 1926 - June 16 2005) was an American historian and journalist best known as the founder and publisher of "In These Times". Weinstein was a life-long socialist and early 20th-century American socialism was often the focus of his writings. As a young man, Weinstein was an active supporter of Henry Wallace's 1948 presidential bid on the Progressive Party ticket, a campaign strongly backed by the Communist Party. - Valgerður Sverrisdóttir
Valgerður Sverrisdóttir is an icelandic politician. She was Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iceland from June 15, 2006 to May 24 2007. She has been Member of Parliament for the Progressive Party for the Northeast constituency since 1987, and has been a member of the party central committee since 1983. - Hugh Guthrie
Hugh Guthrie, PC (13 August, 1866 - 3 November, 1939) was a Canadian politician and Cabinet minister in the governments of Sir Robert Borden, Arthur Meighen and R. B. Bennett. He was born in Guelph, Ontario, the son of Donald Guthrie, and studied there and at Osgoode Hall, becoming a barrister. Guthrie was named a King's Counsel in 1902. He married Maude Henrietta, the daughter of Guelph businessman Thomas H. Scarff. - Alexander Wiley
Alexander Wiley was a member of the Republican Party who served four terms in the United States Senate for the state of Wisconsin from 1939 to 1963. Wiley was born in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. He received his undergraduate education at Augsburg College in Minnesota and the University of Michigan. He received his law degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1907 and was also admitted to the bar the same year. - John Abt
John J. Abt (1904-1991) was an American lawyer and politician. He was the Chief of Litigation, Agricultural Adjustment Administration from 1933 to 1935, assistant general counsel of the Works Progress Administration in 1935, chief counsel to Senator Robert La Follette, Jr.'s Committee from 1936 to 1937 and special assistant to the United States Attorney General, 1937 and 1938. In 1948 he worked with the Progressive Party of former Vice President Henry A. Wallace. - Gunnar Thoroddsen
Gunnar Thoroddsen (December 29 1910-September 27 1983) was Prime Minister of Iceland from 8 February 1980 to 26 May 1983. Gunnar is the youngest man ever elected on Iceland's Parliament. He was 23 years old when he was elected as MP in 1934. He served as an Ambassador of Iceland in Denmark from 1965 to 1969 when he ran for presidency of Iceland in 1968. He wished to succeed his father in law, Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, who served as president from 1952 to 1968. - Walter A. O'Brien
Walter A. O'Brien, Jr. (d. July 1998) was a Progressive Party politician from Boston in the 1940s. In 1949 O'Brien ran for mayor of Boston. Lacking sufficient financial support to pay for radio advertising, O'Brien commissioned campaign songs from local folk artists promoting his themes, recorded them, then played them out of a loudspeaker on a truck driven through town. O'Brien was fined $10 for disturbing the peace as a result. - Steingrímur Hermannsson
Steingrímur Hermannsson (born June 22, 1928) was Prime Minister of Iceland. Steingrímur's father was Hermann Jónasson, another former Prime Minister. Being the son a prominent official, Steingrímur enjoyed a relatively care-free upbringing in a country stricken by the Great Depression. As a young boy he had an execeptional proximity to Iceland's World War II politics, overhearing state affairs being discussed in his father's living room. - James D. Phelan
James Duval Phelan (April 20, 1861 San Francisco, California - August 7, 1930) was an American politician and banker. - Gildas Molgat
Gildas L. Molgat, CD, B.Comm (January 25 1927 - February 28 2001) was a Canadian politician. He served as leader of the Manitoba Liberal Party from 1961 to 1969, and was subsequently appointed to the Canadian Senate, where he served as Speaker from 1994 until 2001. He died shortly thereafter. Molgat was born in Ste. Rose du Lac, Manitoba. He was educated at Ste. Rose School and the University of Manitoba. He worked as a manager for Bethel-Rennie Ltd.
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