Non-Partisan League

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''For the adjective used to describe various United States organizations and elections, see nonpartisan.

The Non-Partisan League (NPL) was a political organization that was founded in 1915 in the United States by former Socialist party organizer A. C. Townley. The Non-Partisan League advocated state control of mills, grain elevators, banks and other farm-related industries in order to reduce the power of corporate political interests from Minneapolis, Minnesota. It originated in North Dakota, but eventually spread throughout the American Midwest and Pacific Northwest during the Progressive Era and was briefly organized as a national party. It also spread northwards into Canada running in provincial elections and forming some of the basis for the Progressive Party of Canada.

The NPL achieved its greatest success in North Dakota, where the party won control of the state legislature and elected Lynn Frazier as governor in 1916, leading to the establishment of state-run agricultural enterprises, such as the North Dakota Mill and Elevator and the Bank of North Dakota. It eventually went into decline, and merged with the Democratic Party of North Dakota in 1956.

The NPL goat served as the League's mascot. It was known as "The Goat that Can't be Got."

See also

• United Farmers
• nonpartisan, adj.
• Progressive Party of Canada
• North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party

Notes and references

External links

• [North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party Website]
• [North Dakota State University Institute for Regional Studies Nonpartisan League Collection]

 

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