Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party

The Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) was created on April 15, 1944 when the Minnesota Democratic Party and Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party merged. Hubert H. Humphrey was instrumental in this merger. The party is affiliated with the national Democratic Party (United States). In 1954 Orville Freeman was elected the state's first DFL governor. Minneapolis, Minnesota Mayor Hubert H. Humphrey, and Walter Mondale, who each served as a United States Senate and as Vice President of the United States, were important members the party. Other important party members include United States Senate Eugene McCarthy, who ran for the Democratic Party nomination in 1968 as the anti-Vietnam War candidate, and United States Senate Paul Wellstone, known during his years in the Senate (1991-2002) as that body's chief voice of populist progressivism[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Democratic-Farmer-Labor_Party#CNN]. The party's headquarters are in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Minnesota. ==Current elected officials== *United States Senate Mark Dayton *Minnesota Attorney General#United States Mike Hatch *Minnesota Senate majority leader Dean Johnson ==See also== * Republican Party of Minnesota * Independence Party of Minnesota * Green Party of Minnesota ==References==

[http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/10/25/elec02.mn.s.wellstone.obit/ Wellstone Made Mark as a Liberal Champion, Sean Loughlin, CNN Washington Bureau, 25 October 2002].

==External links== * [http://www.dfl.org/ Official website] ==Further reading== * Delton, Jennifer A. Making Minnesota Liberal: Civil Rights and the Transformation of the Democratic Party. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. * Haynes, John Earl. ''Farm Coops and the Election of Hubert Humphrey to the Senate''. Agricultural History 57, no. 2 (Fall 1983). * Haynes, John Earl. Dubious Alliance: The Making of Minnesota�s DFL Party. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984. * Henrickson, Gary P. Minnesota in the \"McCarthy� Period\": 1946-1954. Ph.D. diss. University of Minnesota, 1981. * Lebedoff, David. The 21st Ballot: A Political Party Struggle in Minnesota. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1969. * Lebedoff, David. Ward Number Six. New York: Scribner, 1972. Discusses the entry of radicals into the DFL party in 1968. * Mitau, G. Theodore. ''The Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party Schism of 1948''. Minnesota History 34 (Spring 1955). U.S. state Democratic PartiesMinnesota politics

Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party

The article says : The Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party or (DFL) was created on 1944 April 15 when the Minnesota Democratic Party and Farmer-Labor Party merged to create the DFL. Hubert H. Humphrey was instrumental in this merger. In the 1970s, some radicals outside MN described HHH as having "kicked out the" radicals [Reds, Communists, don't recall] "in the MN DP", i think as an argument that his VP or Pres candidacy was a sign that DP was not worth radicals supporting it against GOP.
I always presumed that this meant that the range of ideologies of DFL activists who could expect to fully participate was broadened to the left (in '44), relative to pre-DFL DP, and that HHH later helped implement a retreat from that, either purging FL vets from leadership or narrowing a de facto "grandfather clause" to apply only to the "grandfathers" and not to their proteges. Can anyone provide NPoV info on this? (Or even PoV?!)
--User:JerzyUser talk:Jerzy 20:08, 2004 May 12 (UTC) :I added some further reading references, which might go a ways toward answering User:Jerzy's questions. No idea if they are online. User:DJ Silverfish 19:24, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

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