Nonpartisan League

American  

noun

1. a political organization of farmers, founded in North Dakota in 1915, and extending to many states west of the Mississippi, with the aim of influencing agricultural legislation in state legislatures.

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Example Sentences

Voting rights activists plan to meet next week to discuss legal recourse around restoring fair access to ballots, said Debbie Pantenburg, spokesperson for the nonpartisan League of Women Voters of Mississippi.

From Seattle Times

The nonpartisan League of Women Voters sent a letter to the governor condemning his decision.

From Washington Post

Selling many rural North Dakotans on the plan of more local control, Townley collected cash dues and postdated checks and formed the Nonpartisan League, which grew exponentially as a progressive faction within the state's Republican Party.

From Salon

“He got this issue two decades ago,” Gene Karpinski, president of the nonpartisan League of Conservation Voters, said in an interview.

From Washington Post

Lape was a professor and journalist who co-founded the nonpartisan League of Women Voters in 1919, and Read was a lawyer and later Roosevelt’s financial adviser.

From Washington Post