Scope and Content Note
The records of the Progressive National Committee Supporting Franklin D. Roosevelt for President span the year 1936 and consist of correspondence, office files, press releases, scrapbook of clippings, and other printed material relating to the committee's activities in the 1936 presidential campaign. Prominent individuals represented include Elmer Austin Benson, Mary McLeod Bethune, Maurice P. Davidson, Harold L. Ickes, Judson King, Robert M. LaFollette (1895-1953), Fiorello H. La Guardia, and Frank P. Walsh.