Anti-Monopoly Party
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The Anti-Monopoly Party was a short-lived American
Greenback Party
, which ultimately supplanted the organization.
Organizational history
The first organized Anti-Monopoly Party was founded in Minnesota in 1874 by former congressman Ignatius L. Donnelly.[1]
The Anti-Monopoly Party was founded as a national political party in 1884 at its convention in
antitrust legislation, among other matters. The party also opposed the use of the tariff and the granting of public land to railroads and other corporations.[1]
Former U.S. army general and
Greenback Party. Both parties nominated Absolom M. West of Mississippi for vice president. Butler received 175,370 votes in the election. The party largely disappeared after the election, though a small fringe remained in Kansas
, running local candidates until 1886.
The
reform measures first championed by the Anti-Monopolists and Greenbackers.[1]
Elected officials
One Anti-Monopoly party member was elected to the United States House of Representatives and one member to the U.S. Senate:
- Newton Booth, senator from California. Served in the 44th, 45th, and 46th United States Congress, from 1875 to 1881.
- Benjamin F. Shively, representative from Indiana's 13th congressional district. Served in the 48th United States Congress from March 4, 1883, to March 3, 1885.
References
- ^ a b c Bliss, William Dwight Porter; Binder, Rudolph Michael (1908). The New Encyclopedia of Social Reform: Including All Social-reform Movements and Activities, and the Economic, Industrial, and Sociological Facts and Statistics of All Countries and All Social Subjects. Funk & Wagnalls.