Democratic Party

Please recommend any substantive histories (books or aritcles) of the Labor's Non-Partisan League, with a particular focus on their contestation of Democratic Primaries from 1936 to 1940. I am particularly interested in whether or not individuals, or just unions, were members of the LNPL? How did the LNPL go about determining it's endorsements? Did the LNPL recruit candidates for primaries? Did the LNPL endorse whomever won Democratic primaries, or did it abstain or run its own candidates in any circumstances?

Charles Post/Sociology Graduate Center-CUNY

When Mary Elliott Flanery (D-Catlettsburg) of Boyd County took her seat in the lower house of the General Assembly in January 1922, she was the first female state legislator elected in Kentucky and the first female legislator elected south of the Mason–Dixon line. The 1921 state elections in the South were crucial in justifying the fight for women's right to participate in electoral politics. The elections in Boyd County (for the Kentucky House of Representatives District No.

Even though the Kentucky Equal Rights Association had organized the largest suffrage parade ever in the state on May 6, 1916, and they had a glittering array of women lobbyists at the Democratic State Convention held in Lexington May 24th, the Democratic Party of Kentucky still refused to endorse a woman suffrage plank.

Having extensively studied the Harry Weissinger family, I would agree with some of the profile as currently posted. However, there are a number of factual corrections that should be made.

First, Margaret attended college at Thompson and Peebles School in New York City (source: September 25, 1898 Courier-Journal, pg. 22). Her younger sister, Lilian, also went to college there and according to family accounts attended exercise classes at Madison Square Garden.

Margaret Weissinger was born in Louisville to Isabelle ("Belle") Muir and Col. Harry Weissinger in 1880. Col. Weissinger rode with General Basil Duke in the Confederate Army and returned to Louisville after being pardoned. His future success in the tobacco industry was ensured with his military background and his political allegiance to the Democratic Party. Margaret was his second eldest daughter: her older sister Isabella married Captain George Stanton Tiffany and her younger sister Lillian married New York hotel magnate Julius Manger. Her brother Philip B.