Mr. Progressive : a biography of Elmer Austin Benson / by James M. Shields.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Minneapolis : T. S. Denison & Company, Inc., 1971Description: 346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmOther title:
  • Mr. Progressive: a biography of Elmer A. Benson [Cover title]
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 977.6/05/0924 B
LOC classification:
  • HX 84.B38 S34 1971
Partial contents:
Chapter I. Beginnings -- Chapter II. A country banker goes radical -- Chapter III. Banking commissioner -- Chapter IV. The build-up -- Chapter V. Senator Benson -- Chapter VI. The great crusade -- Chapter VII. The challenge -- Chapter VIII. Deadlock -- Chapter IX. Labor's governor -- Chapter X. Gubernatorial problems -- Chapter XI. Damn the torpedoes -- Chapter XII. Revolt -- Chapter XIII. No compromise -- Chapter XIV. Red-baiting takes over -- Chapter XV. Aftermath -- Chapter XVI. Fighting back -- Chapter XVII. Never say die -- Chapter XVIII. Merger -- Chapter XIX -- NCPAC -- Chapter XX. Wallace campaign -- Chapter XXI. Progressive Party -- Chapter XXII. "Mr. Progressive" -- Chapter XIII. "Elmerisms".
Summary: "Elmer Benson was elected in 1936 as Minnesota’s second Farmer-Labor Party governor with over 58 percent of the vote. He was defeated only two years later by an even larger margin. An outspoken champion of Minnesota’s workers and family farmers, Benson lacked the political gifts of his charismatic predecessor, Floyd B. Olson. However, many of his proposals—at first considered radical—became law in the decades that followed." -- from MNopedia.org.
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Includes "special reference list" in the preface and index.

Chapter I. Beginnings -- Chapter II. A country banker goes radical -- Chapter III. Banking commissioner -- Chapter IV. The build-up -- Chapter V. Senator Benson -- Chapter VI. The great crusade -- Chapter VII. The challenge -- Chapter VIII. Deadlock -- Chapter IX. Labor's governor -- Chapter X. Gubernatorial problems -- Chapter XI. Damn the torpedoes -- Chapter XII. Revolt -- Chapter XIII. No compromise -- Chapter XIV. Red-baiting takes over -- Chapter XV. Aftermath -- Chapter XVI. Fighting back -- Chapter XVII. Never say die -- Chapter XVIII. Merger -- Chapter XIX -- NCPAC -- Chapter XX. Wallace campaign -- Chapter XXI. Progressive Party -- Chapter XXII. "Mr. Progressive" -- Chapter XIII. "Elmerisms".

"Elmer Benson was elected in 1936 as Minnesota’s second Farmer-Labor Party governor with over 58 percent of the vote. He was defeated only two years later by an even larger margin. An outspoken champion of Minnesota’s workers and family farmers, Benson lacked the political gifts of his charismatic predecessor, Floyd B. Olson. However, many of his proposals—at first considered radical—became law in the decades that followed." -- from MNopedia.org.

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