[lbo-talk] Socialist mayor Frank Zeidler dies at 93

B. docile_body at yahoo.com
Sun Jul 9 08:18:21 PDT 2006


Sat Jul 8, 6:12 PM ET

Former Milwaukee Mayor Frank P. Zeidler, the last Socialist to run a major U.S. city, has died, a spokesman for a Milwaukee hospital said on Saturday.

Zeidler, 93, died on Friday of congestive heart failure.

The son of a German Lutheran barber, Zeidler led Milwaukee for three terms from 1948 to 1960 and also ran for president as a Socialist in 1976.

He was the last in an era of Socialist mayors who ran Milwaukee on and off from 1910 and the last Socialist to serve as mayor of a major American city.

Zeidler's tenure in the industrial Midwestern city was marked by large-scale public housing construction, slum clearance and strong statements on behalf of civil rights.

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