Everything about Emil Seidel totally explained
Emil Seidel (
December 13,
1864 –
June 24,
1947) was the
mayor of Milwaukee from
1910 to
1912. He was the first
socialist mayor of a major city in the
United States, and ran as the
Vice Presidential candidate for the
Socialist Party of America in the
1912 presidential election.
Seidel was born in
Ashland, Pennsylvania,
USA. His family moved to
Wisconsin when he was a child. As a young man he lived in
Germany where he trained as a woodcarver and also became a
socialist.
When he returned to the United States he joined the Socialist Party of America. Settling in
Milwaukee, he and eight other socialists were elected as city
aldermen in
1904.
In
1910, Seidel was elected mayor of Milwaukee, becoming the first socialist mayor of a major city in the United States. During his administration the first public works department was established, the first fire and police commission was organized, and a city park system came into being. Seidel cleaned the town up with strict regulation of bars and the closing of
brothels and sporting parlors (modern-day
casinos). It was also during his administration that he employed the noted American poet and author
Carl Sandburg for a brief time. It was Seidel's socialist inclinations that attracted Sandburg to Milwaukee.
In the
1912 mayoral election, the
Democratic and
Republican parties joined forces to defeat Seidel, resulting in his loss to
Gerhard Bading. Seidel then chose to run for
Vice President of the United States on the Socialist ticket with
Eugene V. Debs, and the pair won a respectable 897,011 votes in the 1912 presidential election. Most of his remaining political involvement was in local Milwaukee politics, but in 1932 he ran for a seat in the United States Senate in Wisconsin, winning 6% of the vote, the best showing for a socialist candidate running for the United States senate. Seidel served two more terms as alderman in Milwaukee, in 1916–20 and 1932–36, before his death.
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