Union Party of 1936

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Union Party of 1936

Introduction:

The Union Party was a third political party in the 1930s in the United States of America which wanted to reform the New Deal of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

The party was founded in June 1936 by Charles Edward Coughlin, William Frederick Lemke, Gerald Lyman Kenneth Smith and Francis Everett Townsend. William Lemke was nominated to head its presidential ticket.

The Union Party became third in the November elections of 1936 with 900,000 votes and no electoral votes. The party was dissolved in 1939.

This site focusses specifically on the rise and fall of the Union Party and will also provide information on Senator Huey Long from Louisiana.

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