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Progressive Association

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 23, 2020
Entity authorityQ20164442 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Progressive Association was a political party in British Guiana.

History

The party was established in 1887 by Patrick Dargan, who led it until his death in 1908. It later absorbed the Portuguese-founded Reform Association. In the 1897 general elections the party supported several candidates, including Dargan and Andrew Benjamin Brown; almost all of them were elected.

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“Progressive Association” enters the record as open-knowledge reference entry. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Progressive, Association and Open-knowledge can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1887, 1908, 1897—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Progressive, Association and Open-knowledge.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 23, 2020. The linked authority identifier is Q20164442. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1887, 1908 and 1897.

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This entry incorporates text from “Progressive Association” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.