Progressive Party (United States, 1912)
The Progressive Party was a third party in the United States formed in 1912 by former President Theodore Roosevelt after he lost the presidential nomination of the Republican Party to his former protégé, incumbent President William Howard Taft. The new party was known for taking advanced positions on progressive reforms and attracting some leading reformers. After the party's defeat in the 1912 presidential election, it went into rapid decline, disappearing by 1918. The Progressive Party was popularly nicknamed the "Bull Moose Party" since Roosevelt often said that he felt "strong as a bull moose" both before and after an assassination attempt on the campaign trail.
Reidar Bull
He finished his secondary education in 1927 and the cand.jur. degree at the Royal Frederick University in 1932. From 1934 to 1936 he was a junior solicitor for Emil Stang. He was also a member of the communist group Mot Dag. Bull also chaired the Norwegian Students' Society in 1940, and later the Socialist Jurist Association from 1948 to 1949 and 1961 to 1963.