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The United States Progressive Party of 1948 was a left-wing political party that ran former Vice President Henry A. Wallace of Iowa for president and U.S. Senator Glen H. Taylor of Idaho for vice president in 1948. While sharing the name of the parties that Theodore Roosevelt and Robert La Follette ran on as third party candidates in the presidential elections of 1912 and 1924, respectively, it was not related to either. Unlike the 1912 and 1924 Progressive Parties, whose candidates both made strong showings and racked up Electoral College votes, the 1948 Progressive Party failed to win a single state, coming in fourth in the November election behind Strom Thurmond's Dixiecrat Party. The Progressive Party of Henry Wallace was, and remains, controversial due to the issue of communist influence. The 1948 Progressive Party served as a safe-haven for communists, fellow travelers, and anti-war liberals during the period of the Second Red Scare. Prominent Progressive Party supporters included U.S. Representative Vito Marcantonio and the writer Norman Mailer. ==Foundation== The formation of the Progressive Party began in 1946, after Secretary of Commerce and former Vice President Henry A. Wallace quit the Truman administration and began to publicly agitate against Truman's policies. Calls for a third party had been growing even before Wallace, who was replaced as vice president by Franklin D. Roosevelt with the more conservative Truman at the 1944 Democratic National Convention, left the Truman Administration. One of the ironies of contest between Wallace and Truman was that if F.D.R. had not replaced Wallace with Truman at the 1944 Democratic convention at the behest of Democratic Party bosses who felt that Wallace was too liberal and too erratic, Wallace would have been President of the United States, not Truman. Wallace disliked the hardline that Truman had taken against the Soviet Union, a stance that won him favor among liberals and fellow travelers who were opposed to what became known as the Cold War. He received support from two major organizations, the National Citizens Political Action Committee (NCPAC) and the Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions (ICCASP), political action committees (PACs) that had been created to support F.D.R.〔(Mark J. Epstein, "The Progressive Party of 1948", ''Books at Iowa'', April 1972 )〕 While these two organizations would eventually form the backbone of the 1948 Progressive Party and Henry Wallace's bid for President, it took several years for these organizations to agree on a shared platform and move forward with the formation of a political party. This happened in July 1948, when the 1948 Progressive National Convention was called in Philadelphia to launch the "New Party" to a crowd of enthusiastic liberal and left-leaning citizens.〔 In her 1954 book ''School of Darkness'', Bella Dodd, a Communist Party US National Committee member who later left and went on to give anti-Communist testimony before Congress, wrote about a June, 1947 Communist National Committee meeting she attended at which the founding of the 1948 Progressive Party was planned: The point of it all came near the end, when () Gates read that a third party would be very effective in 1948, but only if we could get Henry Wallace to be its candidate. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Progressive Party (United States, 1948)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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