Calvin Benham Baldwin

He died of cancer on May 12, 1975, in Bethesda, Maryland.

Baldwin lived his later years in Kent, Connecticut. In 1970, son Calvin Benham Baldwin Jr., joined the National Cancer Institute, where he worked for 33 years.

Baldwin remained the Progressive Party's national secretary until it closed in 1955.

In January 1948, Wallace had Baldwin leave the PCA to become his campaign manager. (Baldwin credited their campaign as having moved Truman politically to the left.) By August 1948, the Washington Post had dubbed Baldwin along with John Abt and Lee Pressman (the latter two members of the Soviet underground Ware Group involved in the Hiss-Chambers Case) as "influential insiders" and "stage managers" in the Wallace campaign.

W.E.B. Du Bois pledged his support to the 1948 Wallace campaign in a latter to Baldwin that reads:

In 1945, CIO-PAC founded the National Citizens Political Action Committee (NCPAC), a "liberal lobby" whose membership included communists. Baldwin became the NCPAC's executive vice-chairman and its "driving force." Critical of Truman, NCPAC and other liberal organizations united to form the Progressive Citizens of America (PCA).

In 1943, Baldwin left government to work with the Congress of Industrial Organizations's Political Action Committee (CIO-PAC), headed by Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and a long-time vice president of the CIO. He tried to secure labor vote for US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

In 1937, the Resettlement Administration became the Farm Security Administration (FSA). In 1940, Baldwin became FSA administrator. The FSA distributed low interest loans to small farmers and encouraged cooperatives.

With the advent of the New Deal, Baldwin became assistant to Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace. He first worked with the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) and then as assistant to Rexford Tugwell for the Resettlement Administration as of its founding in 1935.

For five years during the 1920s, he worked for the Norfolk and Western Railroad. In 1929, Baldwin became the manager and owner of the Electric Sales and Service Company in East Radford, Virginia.

Calvin Benham Baldwin, also known as Calvin B Baldwin, C.B. Baldwin, and generally as "Beanie" Baldwin (August 19, 1902 – May 12, 1975), served as assistant to US Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace and administrator of the New Deal's Farm Security Administration in the 1930s, worked for the CIO in the 1940s, and then worked with the Progressive Party from 1948 to 1955.

Calvin Benham Baldwin was born on August 19, 1902, in Radford, Virginia. He attended the Virginia Polytechnic Institute from 1920 to 1923.