Forgotten man

[3] Yale University professor William Graham Sumner appears to be the first to use the phrase "the forgotten man", in his 1876 essay.

He works, he votes, generally he prays—but he always pays..."Roosevelt used the phrase in a radio address he gave on April 7, 1932, to describe the poor men who needed money and were not getting it, promoting his New Deal.

In the film I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) an editorial on the plight of a unjustly-treated prison escapee who has disappeared asks: "What has become of James Allen?

Joan Blondell and Etta Moten Barnett sing the song "Remember My Forgotten Man" in the climactic sequence of the film Gold Diggers of 1933, with scenes of mass unemployment.

In the 1956 film High Society, the Cole Porter song sung by Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra, "Well, Did You Evah!