Editing Americans for Democratic Action (section)

===Founders===
Prominent founding members included:
* [[Joseph Alsop]]<ref name="WorldHistory">
{{cite web
| title = Americans for Democratic Action (ADA)
| website = World History
| url = http://www.worldhistory.biz/modern-history/79901-americans-for-democratic-action-ada.html
| access-date = July 19, 2017}}</ref>
* [[Stewart Alsop]]<ref name="WorldHistory" /><ref name="Schlesinger" />
* [[Chester Bowles]]<ref name="Lindley">
{{cite news
| first = Ernest 
| last = Lindley
| title = Rejecting The Reds: Regrouping of Progressives
| newspaper = The Washington Post
| page = 5
| date = January 6, 1947
}}</ref>
* [[Marquis Childs]]<ref name="Schlesinger">
{{cite book
| first = Arthur M.
| last = Schlesinger Jr.
| author-link = Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
| title = A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950
| publisher = Houghton Mifflin
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=LLyNX6hMDCIC
| page = 457
| date = 2002
| isbn = 978-0618219254
| access-date = October 17, 2018
}}</ref>
* [[David Dubinsky]]<ref name="Schlesinger" />
* [[Elmer Davis]]<ref name="Schlesinger" />
* [[John Kenneth Galbraith]]<ref name="WorldHistory" /><ref name="ADAhistory">
{{cite web
| title = ADA History
| publisher = Americans for Democratic Action
| url = http://www.adaction.org/pages/about/ada-history.php
| access-date = July 19, 2017}}</ref>
* [[Leon Henderson]]<ref name="Lindley" /><ref name="Schlesinger" />
* [[Hubert Humphrey]]<ref name="WorldHistory" /><ref name="Lindley" /><ref name="Schlesinger" />
* [[James I. Loeb]]<ref name="Schlesinger" />
* [[Reinhold Niebuhr]]<ref name="WorldHistory" /><ref name="ADAhistory" /><ref name="Schlesinger" />
* [[Joseph P. Lash]]
* [[Joseph L. Rauh Jr.]]<ref name="WorldHistory" />
* [[Walter Reuther]]<ref name="ADAhistory" /><ref name="Schlesinger" />
* [[Eleanor Roosevelt]]<ref name="WorldHistory" /><ref name="Lindley" /><ref name="ADAhistory" /><ref name="Schlesinger" />
* [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.]]<ref name="Schlesinger" />
* [[Arthur Schlesinger Jr.]]<ref name="WorldHistory" />
* [[John H. Sengstacke]]<ref name="WorldHistory" /><ref>
{{cite book
| first = Penny M. 
| last = Von Eschen | author-link = Penny Von Eschen
| title = Race Against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937–1957
| publisher = Cornell University Press
| url = https://archive.org/details/raceagainstempir00vone
| url-access = registration
| date = 1997
| isbn = 978-0801482922
| access-date = October 17, 2018
}}</ref><ref>
{{cite book
| first = Daniel S. 
| last = Lucks
| title = Selma to Saigon: The Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War
| publisher = University Press of Kentucky
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Y6oaAwAAQBAJ
| date = March 19, 2014
| isbn = 9780813145099
| access-date = October 17, 2018
}}</ref>
* [[James Wechsler]]<ref name="Schlesinger" />
* [[Walter Francis White|Walter White]]<ref name="Schlesinger" />
* [[Wilson W. Wyatt]]<ref name="Lindley" />

In April 1948 at New York state convention, ADA elected the following new officers:  [[Jonathan Bingham]] of [[Scarborough, New York|Scarborough]] as chairman with vice chairmen Dr. William Lehman of Syracuse, Benjamin McLaurin of New York City, Howard Linsay of New York City, Jack Rubenstein ([[Textile Workers Union of America|Textile Workers Union]], [[Congress of Industrial Organizations|CIO]]), and Charles Zimmerman ([[International Ladies' Garment Workers Union]]).<ref name="Eisenhower" />