forgotten man

noun

: a person or category of persons that receives less consideration or attention than is merited

one of the forgotten men of American literature — Jay Leyda

the ultimate consumer has become a forgotten man to industrial designers

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1. a person no longer in the mind of the general public.

2. U.S. Politics. the average wage earner, regarded as economically deprived and forgotten or ignored by the federal government during the Great Depression.

[1920-25]

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forgotten man,

U.S. Politics. a person belonging to the middle class or working class: »

Buckley's most ardent supporters…were mostly “the forgotten men”—office clerks, construction workers, taxicab drivers (New Yorker).

╂[< its use by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930's as a symbol of the victims of the depression]