Committee to Organize a Libertarian Party

Precursor of the present US Libertarian Party, it was formed to debate the desirability of a specifically Libertarian political force.

It was preceeded by several abortive Libertarian Parties including one in California, a functional Libertarian group in Florida that remains as the Libertarian Party Florida, and a Libertarian Party formed in1856 by Manuel de Lemos and J. De Jacques which evolved into the Libertarian and Workingmen'a Library that existed for many years in the area of the present Woolworth building in Manhattan, was associated with the French and Spanish anarchists and then radical Republican Club of New York, and eventually the (Western ) Libertarian Leaugue whose members gave rise to the US Chamber of Commerce, the Libertarian International Organization, FEE and other educational and activist groups.

Contrary to common belief, the Committee was preceded by groups such as the Radical Libertarian Alliance, and the extant Libertarian Alliance (UK) and Red Libertarian-Liberal (Spain) in promoting Libertarian political action. It became defunct upon the first convention of the newly formed US Libertarian Party.