Progressive Party

The Progressive Party is a Centre-Left American political party founded in its current incarnation in 1956. The party is a union between Progressive Democrats who left the party after Claude Pepper was not nominated as the Democratic Nominee, due to his Democratic Socialist stance.

While the 1956 Presidential Elections did not turn out well for Pepper, his critical views on US Foreign Oolicy and anti-establishment rhetoric would find the party an interesting ally in the Nationalist Party. This alliance would lead to the formation the National Progressive Pact a year later. As a part of the Pact, the Progressive Party would then be able successfully nominate senator Henry A. Jackson as the NPP's presidential nominate for the 1960 Presidential Election, contesting against the RDC's Nominee Richard Nixon.

Although they would see themselves defeated at the ballot box in 1960, the Progressive Party has not stopped in their tracks at their setbacks, instead planning further ahead to take both the Senate and the White House.

Prominent Members

Henry M. Jackson - Presidential Nominee for the 1960 Election, Senator for the State of Washington, and potential 1972 NPP presidential nominee

Michael Harrington - Writer and Activist. Potential 1968 NPP presidential nominee

Claude Pepper - Presidential Nominee for the 1956 Election, former Senator for the State of Florida, and former Vice President

Sid McMath - Former Governor of Arkansas (1949-1953) and incumbent Senator of the State of Arkansas (1955-onwards)

Maurine Neuberger - Senator for the State of Oregon

Irving Howe - Writer and Activist

Glen H. Taylor - Former Senator for the State of Idaho

Douglas Fraser - Union leader

Augustus Hawkins - Member of the California State Assembly

Warren Magnuson - Senator for the State of Washington

Bob Bartlett - Senator for the State of Alaska

Lee Metcalf - Senator for the State of Montana

Robert M. La Folltete Jr. - Senator for he State of Wisconsin

Chester Bowles - Senator for the State of Connecticut

Ken Hechler - Senator for the State of West Virginia

Edwin Edwards - Senator for the State of Louisiana

Vito Marcantonio - Leader of the NPP Progressive Caucus in the House of Representative, and Representative from New York

Potential Members

Robert F. Kennedy: Originially the Senator for Massachusetts as a Democrat. Joins the Progressive Party in response to Nixon vetoing the Civil Rights Act and becomes the 1964 NPP presidential nominee.

Frank Church: Senator for the State of Idaho