CIO-PAC

The first-ever "political action committee" in the United States of America was the Congress of Industrial Organizations – Political Action Committee or CIO-PAC (1943–1955). What distinguished the CIO-PAC from previous political groups (including the AFL's political operations) was its "open, public operation, soliciting support from non-CIO unionists and from the progressive public. ... Moreover, CIO political operatives would actively participate in intraparty platform, policy, and candidate selection processes, pressing the broad agenda of the industrial union movement."

Congress of Industrial Organizations – Political Action Committee (CIO-PAC)
FormationJuly 1943
Merger of1955
TypePolitical action committee
Chairman
Sidney Hillman (ACW)
Treasurer
R. J. Thomas (UAW)
Vann Bittner (UMW), Sherman Dalrymple (URW), Albert Fitzgerald (UE), David McDonald (USWA)
Key people
John Abt (co-counsel), Lee Pressman (co-counsel), Calvin Benham Baldwin
Parent organization
Congress of Industrial Organizations
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