California Progressive Politics

This section deals with the group of Californians who became active in bringing machine politics to an end. Historians generally mark the beginning of California progressive politics as the creation of the Lincoln-Roosevelt League in 1907. S.C. Graham was chosen as the first president of the League.

• Progressive Reform in Los Angeles
  under Mayor Alexander
• Economic and Uneconomic Price Fixing by SC Graham
• The Politics of California Water
• Thomas Bard and the origins of progressivism
• The Lincoln-Roosevelt League
• Biography of SC Graham in the LA Public Library files

Ancestors
S.C. Graham	Armstrong Co., Pa	1862-1934
Charles D. Marx	Toledo, Oh	1857-1939