Time Capsule: Wisconsin’s Progressive Party Cheated by the Grim Reaper

Thirty-six days after winning the governorship during this week in 1942, death cruelly intervened and denied the Wisconsin Progressive Party one of its greatest electoral achievements in the party’s twelve-year history. While Minnesota’s neighboring Farmer-Labor Party went out with barely a whimper and most of the country’s […]

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