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Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party political banner atop a car, circa 1925. The Minnesota Farmer–Labor Party emerged from the Non-Partisan League (NPL), which had expanded from North Dakota into Minnesota in 1918, [12] and the Union Labor Party (ULP) of Duluth, Minnesota, which was founded in February 1918. [12]
The Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) is a political party in the U.S. state of Minnesota affiliated with the national Democratic Party. [5] [6] The party was formed by a merger between the Minnesota Democratic Party and the Minnesota Farmer–Labor Party in 1944. [7]
The Farmer–Labor Party continued to exist as a successful state party in Minnesota until 1944, when it merged with the Democratic Party of that state to form the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL). Minnesota elected Farmer-Labor candidates to the United States House of Representatives in all but one election between 1918 and 1942:
The Minnesota Farmer–Labor Party was a populist political party that managed to elect some of its candidates to the United States Congress, a rare feat among American third political parties, and eventually merged with the Minnesota Democratic Party in 1944 to create the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party. The success of the ...
Ken Martin, chair of the Minnesota Democratic-Farm-Labor Party (DFL) and a candidate for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair, argued the party must be willing to “recenter” its ...
Samuels again challenged Omar on the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor party line and this time around lost that party’s endorsement during its May convention after the congresswoman won 60 per ...
Susie Williamson Stageberg (January 30, 1877 - March 15, 1961) was an American political activist and prohibitionist known as the "Mother of Farmer–Labor Party. [1] [2] [3] She was a Perennial candidate running for Minnesota Secretary of State in 1922, 1924 and 1928, US House in 1932, and Minnesota Lieutenant Governor in 1950.
Martin is one of the longest serving state party chairs, having led the Minnesota Democratic-Labor-Farmer Party since 2011. While the Democrats inside the cavernous hotel ballroom cheered Martin's election, not every one was convinced that he alone can lead the party's resurgence.