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unusual facts about Progressive Party



Albert D. Nortoni

Nortoni was an ardent member of the Progressive Party and a strong supporter of Theodore Roosevelt in the 1912 presidential election.

Bjarni Harðarson

Bjarni Harðarson (born December 25, 1961 in Hveragerði) is a bookseller and former MP from the Icelandic Progressive Party.

Cape Qualified Franchise

This British Eastern Cape political block gradually expanded to become the pro-imperialist "Progressive Party", which later came to power under Cecil Rhodes and Jameson.

Francis Black

The UFM, which governed as the Progressive Party, promoted the philosophy that Manitoba should be governed in an efficient, businesslike and non-partisan manner.

Louis Will House

It was the home of Louis Will, Progressive Party mayor of Syracuse during 1914-16.

Milutin Savić

He is the father of Ilija Garašanin and grandfather of Milutin Garašanin (1845-1898), one of the founders and leaders of Serbia's Progressive Party.

Roy O. Woodruff

In 1912, Woodruff defeated incumbent Republican U.S. Representative George A. Loud to be elected as the candidate of the Progressive Party from Michigan's 10th congressional district to the 63rd Congress, serving from March 4, 1913 to March 3, 1915.

Tom Uphill

He would make appearances and make speeches at events such as May Day organized by the Communists and later the Labour-Progressive Party.

Toronto municipal election, December 1950

The defeat of Norman Freed and the failure of Charles Sims to regain his seat would bring to a close the communist Labor-Progressive Party's presence on Toronto's City Council though the party, and its successor, the Communist Party of Canada would continue to elect members as school trustees for several decades.

Wheeler Peckham Bloodgood

In the 1912 National elections Bloodgood was the Wisconsin committee member for Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive Party.

William Josiah MacDonald

In 1912, MacDonald ran as a candidate for the Progressive Party against incumbent Republican H. Olin Young to the United States House of Representatives from the Michigan's 12th congressional district.


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Auditorio Juan Pachín Vicéns

The tumultuous General Assembly of the then-ruling New Progressive Party held there in 1983 led to the creation of a splinter party, the Puerto Rico Renewal Party, by then San Juan mayor Hernán Padilla and the defeat of Governor Carlos Romero Barceló in the 1984 gubernatorial elections.

Bob Kiss

He quickly earned the respect of his colleagues and was subsequently anointed leader of the Progressive Party Caucus.

Davíð

Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, Icelandic politician and chairman of the Progressive Party

Ferdinand Schumacher

Schumacher ran unsuccessfully for Ohio Secretary of State in 1872 and 1882, and Ohio Governor in 1883 as Progressive Party nominee.

Henry S. Benedict

He was nominated by the Progressive Party for the Sixty-fifth Congress, but withdrew in behalf of the Republican nominee.

Liberalism in Slovenia

In Gorizia related groups formed the National Progressive Party in 1900

Madras Presidency Legislative Council election, 1937

The other parties contesting the election were the Madras Province Muslim League (MPML) headed by Jamal Mohammad, the People's Party of Madras started by Raja of Pithapuram (a breakaway faction from the Justice Party) and the Muslim Progressive Party led by Nawab C. Abdul Hakim and S. M. Pasha.

Progressive Youth Organisation

Progressive Youth Organisation of Guyana, a wing of the Guyanese People's Progressive Party (PPP)

Thomas McBride

Thomas George McBride (1867–1950), Progressive party member of the Canadian House of Commons

Welly Yang

His mother returned to Taipei in 1991 to direct foreign affairs for the Democratic Progressive Party.

Þórólfur Árnason

Þórólfur Árnason took over as the mayor of Reykjavík on 1 February 2003 after the Left Greens and the Progressive Party had demanded that Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir, which was mayor next before Þórólfur, would either resign, or decide not to pursue a career in national politics.