A. C. Townley

A.C. Townley (December 30, 1880 – November 7, 1959) was an American Socialist Party organizer best known for creating the Non-Partisan League, which adopted as its platform most of the immediate demands put forward by the Socialists. Townley had not disavowed his socialist beliefs, but became convinced that the doctrinaire approach of his former comrades had made it impossible to build a viable radical movement in North Dakota.

In 1934, he ran for Governor of Minnesota. In the later years of his life he sold insurance. He was killed in a car accident in 1959.