Progressive Era > Catalogs
From Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium
Notable Progressive political leaders
- Nelson Aldrich, Rhode Island, on money issues
- Albert J. Beveridge, Indiana
- William Jennings Bryan, Nebraska
- Herbert Hoover, Washington
- Charles Evans Hughes, New York
- Hiram Johnson, California
- Tom L. Johnson, Cleveland, OH
- Samuel M. Jones, Toledo, OH
- Robert LaFollette, Wisconsin
- Seth Low, New York City
- Frank Lowden, Illinois
- George Norris, Nebraska
- George W. Perkins, New York City
- Gifford Pinchot, Pennsylvania
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, New York
- Theodore Roosevelt, New York City
- Al Smith, New York City
- Henry Stimson, New York City
- William Howard Taft, Washington
- William S. U'Ren, Oregon
- Booker T. Washington, Tuskeegee, AL
- William Allen White, Emporia, Kansas
- Woodrow Wilson, Princeton NJ
- Leonard Wood, Washington
Notable Progressive intellectuals, writers, advocates
- Jane Addams, social worker, peace advocate
- Charles Beard, historian of US; political scientist
- Franz Boas, anthropologist
- Louis D. Brandeis, lawyer, Supreme Court justice
- Nicholas Murray Butler, educator
- John R. Commons, economist
- Andrew Carnegie, philanthropist
- George Washington Carver, black chemist
- Robert deForest, charity organization leader
- John Dewey, philosopher
- W.E.B. Du Bois, black leader
- Thomas Edison, inventor
- Irving Fisher, economist
- Henry Ford, industrialist
- Frederick T. Gates, philanthropist
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, writer
- William Randolph Hearst, publisher
- Lewis Hine, photographer
- Walter Lippmann, journalist
- Charles McCarthy, Wisconsin Idea
- John R. Mott, YMCA leader
- George Cardinal Mundelein, Catholic archbishop of Chicago
- Vernon Louis Parrington, historian and literary critic
- Simon Paton, economist
- Ulrich B. Phillips, historian of South
- Mary Richmond, charity organization leader
- Jacob Riis, journalist
- John D. Rockefeller, Jr., philanthropist
- Theodore Roosevelt, writer, environmentalist (and president)
- Upton Sinclair, writer
- Albion Small, sociologist
- Ellen Gates Starr, social worker
- Lincoln Steffens, Muckraking journalist
- Ida Tarbell, Muckraking journalist
- Frederick Winslow Taylor, efficiency expert
- Frederick Jackson Turner, historian of West
- Thorstein Veblen, economist
- Booker T. Washington, black leader
- Ida B. Wells, black leader
- William Allen White, editor
- Woodrow Wilson, author (and President)
