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.
Example sentencesExamples
Increasingly critical of President Truman's foreign policy, in 1948 he ran for president as a Progressive Party candidate.
Back in 1912, Theodore Roosevelt ran on the Progressive Party ticket.
Definition of Progressive Party in US English:
Progressive Party
proper noun
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.
Example sentencesExamples
Increasingly critical of President Truman's foreign policy, in 1948 he ran for president as a Progressive Party candidate.
Back in 1912, Theodore Roosevelt ran on the Progressive Party ticket.