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Delegates and Alternates to the 17th National Convention of the Socialist Party of America

Convention was held May 20 - 24, 1932, in Milwaukee, WI

The following is an official published list of elected delegates and alternates. It does not necessarily reflect actual attendance.

 

Arkansas

Manford Ettinger

 

Sam Sandberg (Alt.)

 

California

Marion Alderton

William Busick

Mrs. William Busick

Kate Crane Gartz

H.A. Hedden

George Kirkpatrick

Irena Kotowa

A. Levin

Julius Levitt

David Lyon

Mervin Levy

John Packard

Mrs. John Packard

Joseph Pietruszewski

E.E. Porter

Chaim Shapiro

Sam Weisenberg

Joe Zameres

Elenora Zamorska

 

Colorado

Morton Alexander

B.L. Coleman

J.A. Kimber

Carle Whitehead

 

Connecticut

Minnie Cederholm

Fred Cederholm

Walter E. Davis

Arnold E. Freese

Jasper McLevy

 

District of Columbia

Marx Lewis

 

Delaware

Sam Silver

 

Florida

J.J. Patton

 

Georgia

Charles Weintraub

 

Illinois

Ivar A. Anderson

Morris Blumin

Roy Burt

George Chant

John Collins

Jess Cripe

Adolph Dreifuss

Morris Franklin

Anton Garden

Owen Geer

R.B. Green

Meyer Halushka

Ben Larks

F. Matteoni

Paula Milgrom

Hyman Schneid

Fannie Schneid

Morris Seskind

Carl Sweet

Fred Wellman

Frank Zaitz

 

Oscar Elet (Alt.)

Harold Kelso (Alt.)

Donald Lotrich (Alt.)

Jane McDowell (Alt.)

Jacob Siegel (Alt.)

Ed Verburg (Alt.)

 

Indiana

Eugene Cooney

Powers Hapgood

Edward Henry

Phil Reinbold

Wilbur Sheron

 

H.W, Daacke (Alt.)

R. Johnson (Alt.)

H.L. Murch (Alt.)

W.R. Richards (Alt.)

Roy Wilson (Alt.)

 

Kansas

Joseph Cornell

Marcet Haldeman-Julius

Fred Hurd

Roy Ingraham

Ross Magill

M.L. Phillips

Anton Shular

 

Ida A. Beloof (Alt.)

Ralph Gilman (Alt.)

A.J. Graham (Alt.)

Enoch Greer (Alt.)

John Stone (Alt.)

 

Kentucky

J.L. Stark

 

Maine

Donald M. Smith

Gordon Watt

 

Maryland

Charles Bernstein

Elizabeth Gilman

S.M. Neistadt

 

Massachusetts

Leo Arkin

Joseph Bearak

Albert Sprague Coolidge

Charles Hill

Alfred Baker Lewis

Eileen O'Connor

George E. Roewer

Lester Shulman

Glen Trimble

 

Michigan

Hallen Bell

Francis King

Axel Londal

Walter Morris

Arthur Rubenstein

 

R. Benedict (Alt.)

Walter Bergman (Alt.)

Harry Riseman (Alt.)

Jean Seidell (Alt.)

Neil Staebler (Alt.)

 

Minnesota

P.R. Anderson

Leo Gisslen

J.A. Gonstead

Morris Kaplan

August Prohofsky

Sigmond Slonim

Lynn Thompson

O.P. Victorian

 

Mrs. George Daggett (Alt.)

Mrs. J.A. Gonstead (Alt.)

E.H.H. Holman (Alt.)

 

Missouri

B. Cohen

Joseph G. Hodges

G.A. Hoehn

H. Ommerman

 

Mrs. Ray Moss (Alt.)

H.J. Sutton (Alt.)

 

Montana

James D. Graham

 

Nebraska

Gray Bemis

Samuel Lerner

John M. Paul

Wilbur E. Sanford

Harry Uerling

 

William Bishoff (Alt.)

Glenn Griffith (Alt.)

 

New Hampshire

Emil Hangas

 

New Mexico

John Williams

 

New Jersey

George Goebel

Henry Jager

Harry Nelson

Herman F. Niessner

Morris Stempa

Andrew P. Wittel

 

New York

Samuel E. Beardsley

A. Belsky

Simon Berlin

Morris Berman

Paul Blanshard

Heywood Broun

N. Chanin

Samuel DeWitt

William M. Feigenbaum

Esther Friedman

Henry Fruchter

G. August Gerber

Julius Gerber

Wilho Hedman

Louis Hendin

Morris Hillquit

William H. Hilsdorf

Robert A. Hoffman

Vladimir Karapetoff

William Karlin

Harry W. Laidler

Algernon Lee

Olga Long

Bela Low

Herbert M. Merrill

Ray Newkirk

James Oneal

Samuel Orr

Jacob Panken

Bernard J. Riley

Louis Schaffer

Charles Solomon

Carl P. Svenssen

Monroe M. Sweetland, Jr.

Norman Thomas

Jules Umansky

B.C. Vladeck

Sarah Volovick

Louis Waldman

Theresa B. Wiley

 

Jack Altman (Alt.)

Jacob Axelrod (Alt.)

Murray Baron (Alt.)

August G. H. Batten (Alt.)

Joseph Beckerman (Alt.)

Richard M. Briggs (Alt.)

Emil Bromberg (Alt.)

Ethelred Brown (Alt.)

Sofus W, Christensen (Alt.)

August Claessens (Alt.)

Winston Dancis (Alt.)

Nathan Fine (Alt.)

Samuel H. Friedman (Alt.)

W.L. Herman (Alt.)

Arthur Jacobsen (Alt.)

Joseph Laventhal (Alt.)

Edward Levinson (Alt.)

Louis Lison (Alt.)

J.B. Matthews (Alt.)

I. Minkoff (Alt.)

Paul Porter (Alt.)

Carl Parsons (Alt.)

Sol Perrin (Alt.)

S. Romualdi (Alt.)

Elizabeth C. Roth (Alt.)

J.G. Roth (Alt.)

Henry Rosner (Alt.)

Theodore Shapiro (Alt.)

Joseph Tuvin (Alt.)

Girolamo Valenti (Alt.)

Joseph Viola (Alt.)

A.N. Weinberg (Alt.)

William Young (Alt.)

 

Oklahoma

Allen C. Adams

Oscar Ameringer

Newman Jeffery

M. Shadid

A.B. Zigler

 

Mrs. Newman Jeffery (Alt.)

 

Ohio

J. Duddle

Joseph Martinek

Alex Ranen

Joseph W. Sharts

Meyer Weintraub

John Willert

Max Wohl

Sidney Yellen

 

Charles Pinter (Alt.)

Frank Tancek (Alt.)

 

Oregon

George R. Buickerood

Charles Kolb

V.P. Martin

Albert Streiff

Pennsylvania

Franz Daniel

Fred Gendral

Jesse George

Jacob Halderman, Jr.

Darlington Hoopes

Anna Krasna

Sarah Limbach

James H. Maurer

Sarah Limbach

James H. Maurer

Leo Pryzlinski

George Rhodes

Joseph Schwartz

Joshua J. Sherman

George W. Snyder

J. Henry Stump

William J. Van Essen

James S. Van Horn

Birch Wilson

Lilith Wilson

Charles W. Young

Anton Zornik

 

Rhode Island

Jacob Pavlow

 

Tennessee

Frank Perlamn

 

Texas

George Clifton Edwards

G.W.M. Taylor

 

Utah

Earl M. Webber

Mrs. Earl M. Webber

 

Virginia

Herman Ansell

David George

 

Winston F. Dawson (Alt.)

Richard L. Johnson (Alt.)

 

Washington

Will Everett

John M. Glenn

John F. McKay

Walter A. Werth

 

Helen Coates (Alt.)

H.O. Fuhrberg (Alt.)

Stella K. Garrison (Alt.)

Leo Welsh (Alt.)

 

West Virginia

Amicus Most

J.H. Snider

 

Nora Frank (Alt.)

 

Wisconsin

M.V. Baxter

John Banachowicz

Joseph Becker

Al Benson

John Buresh

L.P. Christianson

William Coleman

Carl P. Dietz

Paul Gauer

Otto R. Hauser

Daniel W. Hoan

John F. Huehnl

Leo Krzycki

J.W. Murdoch

Alfred Nabor

Walter Polakowski

William Quick

Max Raskin

Emil Seidel

 

Wyoming

Joesph Lunn

W.W. Wolfe

 

 

FRATERNAL (NON-VOTING) DELEGATES

 

Czechoslovak

Charles Glaser

 

Finnish

George Makela

 

Italian

S. Pollo

 

Jewish

Samuel Levitas

 

Yugoslav [Slovenian]

Charles Pogorelec

 

Lithuanian

Pius Grigaigis

 

Polish

J. Trzaska

The March of Socialism, 1928-1932: Journal of the Seventeenth National Convention, Socialist Party, Milwaukee, Wis., May 20-24, 1932. (Chicago: National Headquarters, Socialist Party, 1932), pg. 33.