Joseph Klein (1886 - ?) was an
American
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machinist
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from
Milwaukee
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,
Wisconsin
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, who served one term as a
Socialist
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member of the
Wisconsin State Assembly
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.
Background
Klein was born in the
Austro-Hungarian Empire
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in 1886, and received his education in the
common schools of that country. In 1903 he moved to the United States, coming directly to Milwaukee. He became a machinist and eventually found a long-term job with the
Chicago & Milwaukee Railway. He became active in the
trade union
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movement and the
Milwaukee Socialist party.
Public office
He served as a
Milwaukee County
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deputy sheriff
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from 1914 to 1916. He was elected to the Assembly's Second Milwaukee County district (the 2nd
Ward of the City of Milwaukee) in 1918 to succeed
Republican William A. Campbell, receiving 658 votes to 627 for William Mielahn and 581 for
Democrat
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Carl Heim. He was assigned to the
standing committee on
labor.
He ran for re-election in 1920, but was defeated by Republican
Martin M. Higgins
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Background
H ...
, with 1,206 to 2,185 for Higgins (there was no Democrat in the race).
''The Wisconsin blue book, 1921'' Madison: 1921; pp. 231, 277
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References
1886 births
20th-century Hungarian people
Austro-Hungarian emigrants to the United States
Hungarian socialists
Machinists
Members of the Wisconsin State Assembly
Politicians from Milwaukee
Socialist Party of America politicians from Wisconsin
Year of death unknown
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