progressive party in English

noun
1
any of three related political parties active in the first half of the twentieth century that favored social reform. The most prominent was that formed under Theodore Roosevelt in 1912.
Back in 1912, Theodore Roosevelt ran on the Progressive Party ticket.

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1. The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) was eventually formed to represent dissident causes.

2. Cho was appointed Secretary-General of the Democratic Progressive Party in October 2007.

3. Indranie Chandarpal (born 1951) is a Guyanese politician representing the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) as a Member of Parliament since 1992.

4. The Labour Party profiles itself as a progressive party that subscribes to cooperation on a national as well as international level.

5. Since 2002, he has been Secretary General of the Democratic Progressive Party and a Senior Adviser in the Office of the President.

6. When Kyösti Kallio was elected President in 1937, Cajander was asked as the chairman of the National Progressive Party to form majority government.

7. In 1916, Bender served as a delegate to the abortive Progressive party convention, which voted to dissolve rather than nominate its own presidential candidate.