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| Affiliation | Socialist |
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| Name | Richard Elsner |
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin , United States |
| Email | None |
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May 29, 1859
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| Died | January 18, 1938
(78 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | Thomas Walker
Dec 23, 2003 03:48pm |
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| Info | Richard Elsner was born on May 29, 1859 in Silesia, Germany. He emigrated to Milwaukee in 1880 and started as a brewery worker. Around this time he joined the Knights of Labor and held the office of Executive Board District Assembly 108. He became an officer of the Brewery Workers Union Local No. 9 and held various offices. He organized the first national boycott against a brewery and was successful in having that brewery unionized. This led to other breweries being unionized. In 1886 he was elected Justice of the Peace on the Labor ticket. That same year he married Emma Melster. He studied law in the evenings at the old Milwaukee Law School, and received his degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 1910, when Emil Seidel was mayor, he was elected Civil Judge. He was elected Register of Deeds in 1918 and served for four years. One of the founders of the Commonwealth Mutual Savings Bank, he was also a Socialist member of the Wisconsin Legislature. He died on January 18, 1938 after a brief illness.
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