Nonpartisan League
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The Nonpartisan League was a left-wing political party founded in 1915 in North Dakota by Arthur C. Townley, a former organizer for the Socialist Party of America. On behalf of small farmers and merch
1919 cover of the League's newspaper, The Nonpartisan Leader, portraying organized farmers and workers standing tall against big business interests.
Nonpartisan League meeting at Brush Lake, Montana.
William Langer
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William "Wild Bill" Langer was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 17th governor of North Dakota from 1932 to 1934 and the 21st governor from 1937 to 1939. His governorship was demarca
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…undercurrent that fueled the NPL's meteoric growth revived with the coming of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl conditions of the 1930s. The NPL's William "Wild Bill" Langer was elected to the governorship in 1932 and 1936. Langer was later elected to the U.S. Senate, serving from 1940 until his death in 1959. By 1950, two…
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Langer in the University of North Dakota yearbook, 1906
Langer as North Dakota Attorney General c. 1919
Langer as governor c. 1932–1939