Progressive Era/Catalogs

Notable Progressive political leaders

• Nelson Aldrich, Rhode Island, on money issues
• Albert J. Beveridge, Indiana
• William Jennings Bryan, Nebraska
• Herbert Hoover, Washington
• Charles Evans Hughes, New York
• Hiram Johnson, California
• Tom L. Johnson, Cleveland, OH
• Samuel M. Jones, Toledo, OH
• Robert LaFollette, Wisconsin
• Seth Low, New York City
• Frank Lowden, Illinois
• George Norris, Nebraska
• George W. Perkins, New York City
• Gifford Pinchot, Pennsylvania
• Franklin D. Roosevelt, New York
• Theodore Roosevelt, New York City
• Al Smith, New York City
• Henry Stimson, New York City
• William Howard Taft, Washington
• William S. U'Ren, Oregon
• Booker T. Washington, Tuskeegee, AL
• William Allen White, Emporia, Kansas
• Woodrow Wilson, Princeton NJ
• Leonard Wood, Washington

Notable Progressive intellectuals, writers, advocates

• Jane Addams, social worker, peace advocate
• Charles Beard, historian of US; political scientist
• Franz Boas, anthropologist
• Louis D. Brandeis, lawyer, Supreme Court justice
• Nicholas Murray Butler, educator
• John R. Commons, economist
• Andrew Carnegie, philanthropist
• George Washington Carver, black chemist
• Robert deForest, charity organization leader
• John Dewey, philosopher
• W.E.B. Du Bois, black leader
• Thomas Edison, inventor
• Irving Fisher, economist
• Henry Ford, industrialist
• Frederick T. Gates, philanthropist
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman, writer
• William Randolph Hearst, publisher
• Lewis Hine, photographer
• Walter Lippmann, journalist
• Charles McCarthy, Wisconsin Idea
• John R. Mott, YMCA leader
• George Cardinal Mundelein, Catholic archbishop of Chicago
• Vernon Louis Parrington‎, historian and literary critic
• Simon Paton, economist
• Ulrich B. Phillips, historian of South
• Mary Richmond, charity organization leader
• Jacob Riis, journalist
• John D. Rockefeller, Jr., philanthropist
• Theodore Roosevelt, writer, environmentalist (and president)
• Upton Sinclair, writer
• Albion Small, sociologist
• Ellen Gates Starr, social worker
• Lincoln Steffens, Muckraking journalist
• Ida Tarbell, Muckraking journalist
• Frederick Winslow Taylor, efficiency expert
• Frederick Jackson Turner, historian of West
• Thorstein Veblen, economist
• Booker T. Washington, black leader
• Ida B. Wells, black leader
• William Allen White, editor
• Woodrow Wilson, author (and President)