Americans for Democratic Action

People

National Chairs/Presidents

• 1947-1948 Wilson Wyatt
• 1948-1949 Leon Henderson
• 1949-1950 Senator Hubert Humphrey
• 1950-1953 Francis Biddle
• 1954-1955 Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. & James E. Doyle (co-chairs)
• 1955-1957 Joseph L. Rauh, Jr.
• 1957-1959 Robert R. Nathan
• 1959-1962 Samuel H. Beer
• 1962-1965 John P. Roche
• 1965-1967 Rep. Don Edwards
• 1967-1969 John Kenneth Galbraith
• 1970-1971 Joseph Duffy
• 1971-1973 Rep. Allard K. Lowenstein
• 1974-1976 Rep. Donald M. Fraser
• 1976-1978 Senator George McGovern
• 1978-1981 Rep. Patsy T. Mink
• 1981-1984 Rep. Robert F. Drinan, S.J.
• 1984-1986 Rep. Barney Frank
• 1986-1989 Rep. Ted Weiss
• 1989-1991 Rep. Charles B. Rangel
• 1991-1993 Senator Paul D. Wellstone
• 1993-1995 Rep. John Lewis
• 1995-1998 Jack Sheinkman
• 1998-2000 Rep. Jim Jontz
• 2000-2008 Rep. Jim McDermott
• 2008-2010 Richard Parker
• 2010- Rep. Lynn Woolsey

1947 Committee

• Leon Henderson - Co-chairman
• Wilson Wyatt - Co-chairman
• James Loeb Jr. - Secretary-Treasurer

Organizing Committee

Charles G. Bolte | Harvey M. Brown | David Dubinsky | George Edwards | Ethel S. Epstein | Hugo Ernst | John Green | Hubert H. Humphrey | Mrs Clyde Johnson | James S. Killen | Frank W. McCulloch | B.F. McLaurin | Reinhold Neibuhr | Mrs Gifford Pinchot | Edward F. Pritchard, Jr. | Walter P. Reuther | Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. | Rt Reverend William Scarlett | Walter White | Samuel Wolchak | Willard S. Townsend | Wilson Wyatt