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Zeidler was elected Milwaukee County Surveyor in 1938 on the Progressive Party ballot line (the Socialist Party and Progressives were in coalition in Milwaukee at that time). [ 7 ] He was elected to a six-year term on the Milwaukee Board of School Directors (a non-partisan office) in 1941, just after his brother Carl Zeidler was elected Mayor ...
Sewer socialism refers to the American socialist movement that centered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from around 1892 to 1960. [1] The moniker was coined by Morris Hillquit at the 1932 Milwaukee convention of the Socialist Party of America as a commentary on the Milwaukee socialists and their perpetual boasting about the excellent public sewer ...
Milwaukee in 1898 Milwaukee in 1912 Milwaukee slums in 1936 Milwaukee in 1955 During the first half of the 20th century, Milwaukee was the hub of the socialist movement in the United States . Milwaukeeans elected three Socialist mayors during this time: Emil Seidel (1910–1912), Daniel Hoan (1916–1940), and Frank Zeidler (1948–1960), and ...
Rosalind Margaret Drosen, The History of Socialism in Milwaukee, 1910-1930. BA thesis. University of Wisconsin, 1931. Elizabeth A. Joswiak, 'The City for the People': Milwaukee Municipal Recreation and the Socialists, 1890-1917. PhD dissertation. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997.
Emil Seidel (December 13, 1864 – June 24, 1947) was an American politician. Seidel was the mayor of Milwaukee from 1910 to 1912. The first Socialist mayor of a major city in the United States, Seidel became the vice presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America in the 1912 presidential election.
In 1903 he moved to the United States, coming directly to Milwaukee. He became a machinist and eventually found a long-term job with the Chicago & Milwaukee Railway . He became active in the trade union movement and the Milwaukee Socialist party .
Victor Luitpold Berger (February 28, 1860 – August 7, 1929) was an Austrian–American socialist politician and journalist who was a founding member of the Social Democratic Party of America and its successor, the Socialist Party of America.
Thomas McEwing Duncan (March 5, 1893 – February 22, 1959) was an American clerical worker from Milwaukee who served three terms as a Socialist member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (1923–1929) and one term as a member of the Wisconsin State Senate (1929–1933) representing the Milwaukee-based 6th Senate district.