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Farmer-Labor party

[ fahr-mer ley-ber ]

noun

  1. a political party in Minnesota, founded in 1920 and merged with the Democratic Party in 1944.
  2. a political party founded in Chicago in 1919 and dissolved in 1924.


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Ken Martin, chairman of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer-Labor Party and a rules committee member, said he anticipates the committee will weigh in on the jousting between New Hampshire and Nevada over the first-in-the-nation primary, Iowa’s hopes of staying in the early state mix, and the battle between Minnesota and Michigan to become the Iowa alternative.

A spokeswoman for the Minnesota’s Democratic Farmer-Labor Party, Ellen Anderson, confirmed that lawmakers received such messages.

Democrats in Minnesota are known as the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party because of their 1944 merger with the Farmer-Labor Party.

“From a branding perspective, we have a huge problem,” said Ken Martin, the chairman of Minnesota’s Democratic Farmer-Labor Party.

The Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party was perhaps the most successful statewide third party in United States history until it merged with the Democrats in 1944.

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