Clifford T. McAvoy

His grandfather Thomas McAvoy was an ally of Tammany Hall head Charles F. Murphy[2] and the brother of Francis S.

Fiorello La Guardia unsuccessfully attempted to convince the party to nominate McAvoy as its candidate to succeed Baruch Vladeck in 1938.

[8] He resigned from this position in 1948 in order to support Henry Wallace's campaign, arguing that Truman had "reversed the progressive foreign and domestic policies of FDR".

[9] In 1951, McAvoy was the American Labor Party's candidate for city council president, and received 6.1% of the vote.

[12] In the 1956 election, McAvoy supported the Socialist Workers Party presidential candidates Farrell Dobbs and Myra Tanner Weiss.