Leo Leous Isacson was a New York attorney and politician. He won the 1948 election to the United States House of Representatives from New York's twenty-fourth district (Bronx) as the candidate of the American Labor Party in what at that time The New York Times called "a test of Truman-[versus]-Wallace strength" with regard to the upcoming U.S. presidential elections and a "test today of the third-party movement headed by Henry A. Wallace".
Leo Isacson (1947)
Women supporting Franklin D. Roosevelt, Herbert H. Lehman, and the American Labor Party teach other women how to vote in 1936, the year in which Isacson first joined the ALP
In the late 1940s, FBI targeted alleged communist supporters, from unions to politicians (including ALP congressman Vito Marcantonio and Leo Isacson), as well as Communist leaders like Robert Thompson and Benjamin J. Davis (above)
Henry A. Wallace supported Isacson for Congress
The American Labor Party (ALP) was a political party in the United States established in 1936 that was active almost exclusively in the state of New York. The organization was founded by labor leaders and former members of the Socialist Party of America who had established themselves as the Social Democratic Federation (SDF). The party was intended to parallel the role of the British Labour Party, serving as an umbrella organization to unite New York social democrats of the SDF with trade unionists who would otherwise support candidates of the Republican and Democratic parties.
Women surrounded by posters in English and Yiddish supporting Franklin D. Roosevelt, Herbert H. Lehman, and the American Labor Party teach other women how to vote, 1936.
The American Labor Party elected five men to the New York State Assembly in 1937, shown here. Seated (L-R): Frank Monaco, Nathaniel M. Minkoff. Standing: Gerard J. Muccigrosso (leaning on desk), Salvatore T. DeMatteo, Benjamin Brenner, Saul Minkoff, Jr., clerk, and Samuel Puner, official American Labor Party lobbyist.
Pinback button issued by the American Labor Party.