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This is a list of American politicians who are members of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and who have held elected office in the United States. CPUSA has run candidates on an explicit Communist ticket, on tickets of third parties (such as the Nonpartisan League), and on Democratic tickets. See also: List of Communist Party USA election results.
The Communist Party USA, officially the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), [9] is a communist party in the United States which was established in 1919 after a split in the Socialist Party of America following the Russian Revolution.
During the 1972 presidential election, the CPUSA withdrew its support from the Democratic Party and nominated Hall as its candidate. [25] Hall ran for president four times — in 1972, 1976, 1980, and 1984 — the last two times with Angela Davis . [ 4 ]
The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) is an American political party with a communist platform that was founded in 1919 and reconstituted in 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. [1] [2] Its history is deeply rooted in the history of the American labor movement as it played critical roles in the earliest struggles to organize American workers into unions, in leadership of labor strikes, [3] as well as ...
Communist Party USA politicians (2 C, 42 P) Pages in category "Members of the Communist Party USA" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 311 total.
James W. “Jim” Ford (December 22, 1893 – June 21, 1957 [1]) was an activist, a politician, and the vice-presidential candidate for the Communist Party USA in the years 1932, 1936, and 1940. Ford was born in Alabama and later worked as a party organizer for the CPUSA in New York City.
Democratic Party (Communist Party USA member) [29] Bolívar Pagán: House December 26, 1939: January 3, 1945: Puerto Rico: Republican Union (Socialist Party member) Vito Marcantonio: House January 3, 1939: January 3, 1951: New York American Labor Party [28] [30] Henry Teigan: House January 3, 1937: January 3, 1939: Pennsylvania
As a third-party candidate in the election of 1968, Mitchell was the first Black woman to run for President of the United States. [1] [10] She represented the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and her running mate was Michael "Mike" Zagarell, the National Youth Director of the party. [11]