Broadsides: First Socialist Congressman

By Victor L. Berger

Victor Luitpold Berger, born 28 August 1860 in Nieder-Rehbach, Austrian Empire (today part of Romania). He emigrated to the United States with his parents in 1878, settling in Connecticut. In 1881, Berger moved to Milwaukee, a city with both a large German-American population and an active labor movement. He joined the local Socialist Labor Party. The next year he become the editor of the Milwaukee Arbeiter-Zeitung and changed the name to Vorwärts. This book consists primarily of newspaper columns from 1906-1908, prior to his election to the US House of Representatives from Wisconsin's 5th district. It is also slightly before Emil Seidel became the first Socialist Mayor of a major American city. Seidel would be the first in a line of socialist mayors in Milwaukee that dominated the first half of the twentieth century.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0D53PHHL1
• ISBN13: 9798326455857
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 224 Pages
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"