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  Claessens, August
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NameAugust Claessens
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Brooklyn, New York , United States
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Born June 10, 1885
DiedDecember 09, 1954 (69 years)
Contributornystate63
Last ModifedJuan Croniqueur
Feb 26, 2024 04:25am
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InfoAugust Claessens was a leading educational and political figure in the Socialist Party. In the fall of 1917, Claessens was elected to the New York State Assembly, as a representative of one of Manhattan's Lower East Side assembly districts, and was one of five socialist assemblymen who the Assembly refused to seat after their 1919 reelections. In 1922 Claessens was allowed to take office after being re-elected for the third time. In the mid-1930s Claessens withdrew from the Socialist Party and became the executive secretary and, later, the national chairman of the Social Democratic Federation. Claessens held the position of national chairman until his death in 1954, and also ran unsuccessfully for a number of local and state offices. Claessens taught a variety of subjects at the Rand School of Social Science from the mid-1920s until his death in 1954, including public speaking, psychology, race relations, labor-management relations, socialist theory, politics, anthropology, and sex and society. Claessens also served as an instructor in several evening schools sponsored by various New York City labor unions.

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Wife Hilda G. Claessens 00, 1912-May 10, 1932

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RACES
  11/02/1954 NY Assembly - Kings 14 Lost 6.77% (-61.16%)
  11/03/1953 New York City Council 09 Lost 9.59% (-57.24%)
  11/07/1950 NY District 8 Lost 4.87% (-57.07%)
  11/08/1949 New York City Council 09 Lost 7.30% (-59.05%)
  11/02/1948 NY District 8 Lost 3.74% (-63.94%)
  11/05/1946 NY District 10 Lost 8.35% (-49.54%)
  11/05/1940 NY State Senate 11 Lost 10.85% (-51.87%)
  11/08/1938 NY Assembly - Kings 14 Lost 39.76% (-18.68%)
  11/02/1937 NY Assembly - Kings 04 Lost 1.35% (-51.58%)
  11/06/1934 NY At-Large Lost 1.94% (-25.68%)
  11/08/1932 NY District 14 Lost 8.03% (-52.64%)
  11/04/1930 NY Assembly - New York 06 Lost 11.93% (-31.99%)
  04/11/1930 NY District 18 - Special Election Lost 1.92% (-78.62%)
  11/06/1928 NY District 14 Lost 5.40% (-48.98%)
  11/02/1926 NY Lt. Governor Lost 3.09% (-46.61%)
  11/03/1925 NY Assembly - Bronx 04 Lost 21.08% (-43.30%)
  11/04/1924 NY District 23 Lost 13.12% (-43.16%)
  11/06/1923 NY Assembly - New York 17 Lost 23.71% (-26.41%)
  11/07/1922 NY Assembly - New York 17 Lost 40.70% (-0.80%)
  11/08/1921 NY Assembly - New York 17 Won 42.11% (+3.21%)
  11/02/1920 NY Assembly - New York 17 Lost 47.61% (-4.79%)
  01/07/1920 NY Assembly Speaker Lost 2.74% (-71.92%)
  11/04/1919 NY Assembly - New York 17 Won 50.20% (+0.71%)
  11/05/1918 NY Assembly - New York 17 Won 40.67% (+7.76%)
  11/06/1917 NY Assembly - New York 17 Won 49.91% (+19.11%)
  11/07/1916 NY Assembly - New York 26 Lost 31.43% (-4.30%)
  11/02/1915 NY Assembly - New York 26 Lost 17.73% (-24.64%)
  11/03/1914 NY District 15 Lost 3.03% (-62.05%)
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