WHO ARE WE
Progress can not wait. From City Council to the Governorship, Young Democrats work to elect progressive democrats up and down the ballot and across our state.
OUR HISTORY
The exact beginnings to the Young Democrats of Wisconsin is unknown. Around the 1930s and 1940s independent, local, Young Democratic organizations began to form it wasn’t until the formation of the Democratic Organizing Committee that a statewide organization formed. The formation of what was then the Young Democratic Caucus of Wisconsin is best described by the Universities of Wisconsin Library:
“In 1951 several young Democrats met at Wausau in conjunction with the DOC convention. The organization initiated at that meeting was formalized at a convention of Young Democrats at Stevens Point on February 24, 1952, and a provisional constitution was adopted. On May 18 the constitution was adopted by a meeting at Wisconsin Dells.”
Young Democrats would go on to be very active in the 1960 presidential primary and election. The current iteration of the Young Democrats of Wisconsin was founded in 2016. YDW was very active during the 2018 gubernatorial cycle supporting and electing out of its own members Young Democrats like Sarah Godlewski, and Mandela Barnes.
