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Louis A. Arnold (July 13, 1872October 4, 1958) was an
Louis A. Arnold (July 13, 1872October 4, 1958) was an American
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worker and Socialist politician from Milwaukee who served two terms (1915–1922) as a member of the Wisconsin State Senate representing the Milwaukee-based 7th Senate district.
Background
Arnold was born in Boonville, Indiana on July 13, 1872; four months later his parents moved to Newburg in Washington County, Wisconsin, where his father had ahardware store
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. He attended the public school
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s, and graduated from the West Bend high school
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. He taught school one year and then went to work for the Vilter Manufacturing company of Milwaukee, where he was engaged in erecting icemaking and refrigerating plants.
Politics
Arnold was a member of Milwaukee's moderate,social-democratic
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" Sewer Socialists." In the ''Social Democracy Red Book'' of 1900 he was listed among "One Hundred Well-Known Social Democrats." He was the Socialist nominee for a number of offices, including Congressman
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from the fourth Congressional district. He was a City of Milwaukee alderman for the 17th Ward from 1908 to 1912; tax commissioner of Milwaukee from 1912 to 1915; and was elected to the Wisconsin Senate's 7th District in 1914 (succeeding fellow Socialist Gabriel Zophy
Gabriel Zophy (April 17, 1869 – September 9, 1947) was an American carpenter, building contractor, and Socialist from West Allis who served one term (1911–1914) as a member of the Wisconsin State Senate representing the Milwaukee County-based ...
) and re-elected in 1918.
Indictment
On October 29, 1918, a few days before the election in which he was a candidate for re-election, Arnold (as state secretary of the Socialist Party of Wisconsin) was one of five Socialists (the most prominent being CongressmanVictor Berger
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) indicted under the Espionage Act of 1917 due to their organized opposition to U.S. participation in the First World War. Like Berger, he was re-elected despite the highly publicized indictment, receiving 4,730 votes to 4,532 for Republican David Love.
After the Senate
Arnold was the1922
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Socialist nominee for Governor of Wisconsin
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and came in third to Progressive
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Republican John James Blaine and Democrat Arthur A. Bentley, with 39,570 votes (12.18% of a total of 481,828). His Senate seat was claimed by fellow Socialist William Quick.
In 1922, Arnold was appointed Tax Commissioner of Milwaukee, with Mayor Daniel Hoan taking advantage of the absence of two objecting city council members due to illness to gain a successful vote of appointment. Arnold continued in that office until his retirement in 1939. During his tenure, he was offered a role on the State Tax Commission by Governor Philip La Follette, but preferred to remain in Milwaukee.
He was elected in 1933 as a Wet delegate to the Wisconsin convention which voted to ratify the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution. In 1941, he spoke at a Socialist meeting in support of the return of a ballot line for the Socialist Party, which had previously merged into a Farmer Labor Progressive Federation."Socialists to Seek Place on Ballots", ''Wisconsin State Journal'' (November 3, 1941), p. 5.
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