The Nonpartisan League ( NPL ) was a political organization founded in 1915 in the United States by former Socialist Party organizer A. C. Townley.

The Nonpartisan League advocated state control of mills, grain elevators, banks and other farm-related industries in order to reduce the power of corporate political interests from Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Origins of the Nonpartisan League.

* Gaston, Herbert E. The Nonpartisan League.

To Fuel a Fire: Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in the North Dakota Nonpartisan League 1915-1921.

The Nonpartisan League in North Dakota: A Case Study of Political Action in America.

* Huntington, Samuel P. The Election Tactics of the Nonpartisan League.

The Nonpartisan League: Its Birth, Activities and Leaders.

* Morlan, Robert L. Political Prairie Fire: The Nonpartisan League 1915-1922.

Harvest of Discontent: The Social Origins of the Nonpartisan League, 1880-1922.

* Nielsen, Kim E. We All Leaguers by Our House ': Women, Suffrage, and Red-Baiting in the National Nonpartisan League.

* Reid, Bill G. John Miller Baer: Nonpartisan League Cartoonist and Congressman.

Power to the People: The Nonpartisan League.

* Remele, Larry R. The Lost Years of A. C. Townley ( after the Nonpartisan League ).

The Story of the Nonpartisan League: A Chapter in American Evolution.

* Schoeder, Lavern. Women in the Nonpartisan League in Adams and Hettinger Counties.

Fighting for a Future: Farm Women of the Nonpartisan League.

The Beginning and the End of the Nonpartisan League, ( Coleman: Saint Paul, MN: Ramaley Printing Co., 1920 ).

The Nonpartisan League in Minnesota: 1916-1924.

* Morlan, Robert L. ( 1955 ) Political Prairie Fire: The Nonpartisan League, 1915-1922, ( University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis )

* North Dakota State University Institute for Regional Studies Nonpartisan League Collection

* Northern Lights-docudrama of the forming of the Nonpartisan League in North Dakota *

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It was a time of bitter political discontent and bickering between the NPL ( Nonpartisan League, which supported state-owned industry ) and the IVA ( Independent Voters Association, which opposed state ownership of Industries ).

This was the organization of the Farmers Nonpartisan League ( later called the National Nonpartisan League ).

Creation of the Democratic Nonpartisan League Party was codified in March during the League Convention, 173 to 3 voted yes to file candidates in the Democratic column.

The recall stemmed from the conflict between the socialist-leaning Nonpartisan League, of which Governor Frazier was a member, and the Independent Voters Association, a conservative and pro-capitalist faction.

In 1914, Langer was appointed state's attorney of Morton County, ND and was one of a few non-farmers on the Nonpartisan League Republican 1916 state ticket.

* Bezpartyjny Blok Współpracy z Rządem ( Polish for " Nonpartisan Bloc for Cooperation with the Government ") was an ostensibly non-political organization that existed from 1928 to 1935, closely affiliated with Józef Piłsudski and his Sanation movement.

* Bezpartyjny Blok Wspierania Reform ( Polish for " Nonpartisan Bloc for Support of Reforms ") was an ostensibly non-political organization ( but in reality a political party ) affiliated with Lech Wałęsa.

In 1993, he co-founded the Nonpartisan Bloc for Support of Reforms ( BBWR ) which gathered behind president Lech Wałęsa and was its leader in 1994.

In 1930 – 1935 he was vice-president of the Nonpartisan Bloc for Cooperation with the Government ( BBWR ).

In U. S. history, the Nonpartisan League was an influential socialist political movement, especially in the Upper Midwest, particularly during the 1910s and 1920s.

The Nonpartisan Bloc for Cooperation with the Government (, ; abbreviated BBWR ) was a " non-political " organization that existed in 1928 – 35, closely affiliated with Józef Piłsudski and his Sanation movement.

In 1993 Lech Wałęsa, then President of Poland, founded a Nonpartisan Bloc for Support of Reforms, in Polish Bezpartyjny Blok Wspierania Reform, likewise abbreviated " BBWR ," which was meant to continue some of the traditions of the prewar organization, and form a group in parliament that explicitly supported the president.

The Nonpartisan Bloc for Support of Reforms ( Bezpartyjny Blok Wspierania Reform ), abbreviated BBWR, was an officially nonpartisan organization ( but, in fact, a political party ) affiliated with Lech Wałęsa.

It was founded to continue the traditions of Józef Piłsudski's pre-war Nonpartisan Bloc for Cooperation with the Government ( Bezpartyjny Blok Współpracy z Rządem ), which likewise had been known by the same initials, BBWR.

Like his father, Burdick became active in politics and joined the Nonpartisan League ( NPL ), a populist-progressive group which was allied with the Republican Party.

On December 2, a crowd energized by speakers from the Nonpartisan League again grew angry after TCRT cut off electricity to the streetcars in downtown St. Paul, making it impossible for many people to return home.

Nonpartisan elections are held in odd-numbered years.

In 1940, BSC agents ran the Nonpartisan Committee to Defeat Hamilton Fish in order to “ put the fear of God into every isolationist senator and congressman .” The committee raised substantial sums of money for Fish ’ s opponent, coordinated several media attacks, created false charges of wrongdoing just before elections, and helped distribute books charging Fish with disloyalty.

Usher L. Burdick ( Nonpartisan Republican )

The Fred and Gladys Grady House and the Oliver and Gertrude Lundquist House, both in Bismarck, North Dakota, are listed on the U. S. National Register of Historic Places as examples of the work of the Nonpartisan League's Home Building Association.