Committee of 48
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The Committee of 48 was an American liberal political association established in 1919 in the hope of creating a new political party for social reform to stand in opposition to the increasingly conservatism of both major U.S. political parties, the Republican Party and the Democratic Party.
Committee of 48 | |
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Founded | 1919 (1919) |
Dissolved | 1923 (1923) |
Ideology | Liberalism Social democracy |
Political position | Center-left |
Named in recognition of the 48 U.S. state to signify the desire to construct a broad national movement, the moderate progressives of the Committee of 48 attempted without success to form such a third party with sympathetic activists from the labor movement in 1920.
The group, commonly known as the "Forty-Eighters", became one of the key constituents in the Conference for Progressive Political Action in 1922, a movement culminating in the independent candidacy of Robert M. La Follette for President of the United States in 1924.