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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