Working Men's Party (New York)

Working Men's Party
ChairmanThomas Skidmore
SecretaryRobert Dale Owen
Founded1829 (1829)
Dissolved1831 (1831)
Succeeded byLocofoco faction of the Democratic Party[1]
HeadquartersNew York City
NewspaperWorking Man's Advocate
IdeologyCommunalism
Labor rights
Utopian socialism
Political positionLeft-wing
Robert Dale Owen (1801–1877) was a prominent leader of the short-lived New York Working Men's Party.
For other organizations with a similar name, see Workingmen's Party (disambiguation).

The Working Men's Party in New York was a political party founded in April 1829 in New York City. After a promising debut in the fall election of 1829, in which one of the party's candidates was elected to the New York State Assembly, the party rapidly disintegrated into factionalism and discord, vanishing from the scene in 1831.

The New York Working Men's Party was one of a number of short-lived independent workingmen's parties which simultaneously emerged in Philadelphia, Boston, and many other urban centers of the United States during the period 1828 to 1832.

  1. ^ Byrdsall, Fitzwilliam (1842). The History of the Loco-Foco or Equal Rights Party. New York: Clement & Packard. pp. 13–14.