biography
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Seidel, George (Lukas Emil)
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pronunciation:
[siydel]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1864–1947)
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| biography:
| Mayor, born in Ashland, Pennsylvania, USA. At age 13 he began working as a woodworker and became interested in trade unions. While advancing his woodworking skill in Germany (1886–92), he became a fairly radical Socialist, and on returning to Milwaukee joined a branch of the Social Democracy of America and served two terms on the city council. Stressing municipal reform, he was elected mayor of Milwaukee (1910) on a Socialist ticket, the first Socialist mayor of a major US city. He lost re-election in 1912 partly due to fears of the ‘red menace’, and was also an unsuccessful vice-presidential candidate with Eugene Debs the same year. Although he held various municipal offices in Milwaukee intermittently until 1936, he failed in his attempts to become a governor and US senator. |
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