Progressive Party Definition

noun
A US political party that was organized by Republican insurgents in 1911 and supported the presidential candidacy of Theodore Roosevelt in 1912.
American Heritage
One of three short-lived, minor American political parties.
Webster's New World
A US political party organized in 1924 that supported the presidential candidacy of Robert M. La Follette and was active in Wisconsin until 1946.
American Heritage
A US political party formed in 1948 to support the presidential candidacy of Henry A. Wallace.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
  • bull moose party

Progressive Party Sentence Examples

  • He sat in these bodies as a member of the Progressive party (Fortschrittspartei), and in Bavaria was one of the leaders of the Liberal (Freisinnige) party.

  • He was a conservative in theology, but an enthusiastic adherent of the progressive party in politics, and sat as member for Erlangen and Furth in the Bavarian second chamber from 1863 to 1868.

  • Forchhammer was a democrat in the best sense of the word, and from 1871 to 1873 represented the progressive party of Schleswig-Holstein in the German Reichstag.

  • On several occasions (1874, 1877 and 1878) he sat in the Reichstag as a member of the progressive party.

  • In 1884 at an official banquet the leaders of the progressive party assassinated six leading Korean statesmen, and the intrigues in Korea of the banished or escaped conspirators created difficulties which were very slow to subside.

More Sentences

Related Articles

Find Similar Words

Find similar words to Progressive Party using the buttons below.

Words Starting With

PPRPRO

Words Ending With

YTYRTY

Unscrambles

Progressive Party

Words Starting With P and Ending With Y

Starts With P & Ends With YStarts With PR & Ends With YStarts With P & Ends With TY

Word Length