Thomas Ryum Amlie

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American politician (1897-1973)

United States PoliticiansLived 1897 to 1973 · aged 76

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Thomas Ryum Amlie was an American lawyer and progressive politician from Wisconsin. S.

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Newspaper advertisement promoting Amlie's candidacy for Eau Claire County District Attorney, August 30, 1924

Newspaper advertisement promoting Amlie's candidacy for Congress, October 1, 1931

Amlie c. 1935

Amlie's brother Hans (right) shows him where he was grazed by a bullet in Spain, January 19, 1938

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Thomas Ryum Amlie was an American lawyer and progressive politician from Wisconsin. He served six years in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Wisconsin's 1st congressional district; he was first elected to 72nd Congress (1931-1933) as a progressive Republican, but was defeated in the 1932 Republican primary; he then returned to Congress running on the Wisconsin Progressive Party ticket, and served from 1935 to 1939. He helped established the Farmer-Labor-Progressive League and later the Farmer-Labor Progressive Federation. Inspired by the progressive policies of the Roosevelt administration, Amlie joined the Democratic Party in the 1940s and made two more unsuccessful bids for Congress.

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