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Delegates
to the 1912 Convention of the Socialist Party of America
Convention
was held May 12-18, 1912, at Indianapolis, Indiana.
The gathering
was attended by 287 voting delegates and 8 non-voting delegates,
representing 47 states plus the District of Columbia and 7 of
the party's foreign language groups.
National
Executive Secretary (non-voting delegate)
John M. Work
Alabama
G.L. Cox
Arizona
E.H. Allen
Erma Hyatt
Allen E.
Johnston
Arkansas
Ida Callery
A.R. Finke
Dan Hogan
J.A.C. Meng
California
A.E. Briggs
C.K. Broneer
Edward Adams
Cantrell
George W.
Downing
Mary E. Garbutt
Job Harriman
E.H. Mizner
R.A. Maynard
A.W. Harris
Ernest L.
Reguin
N.A. Richardson
H.C. Tuck
J.W. Wells
Fred C. Wheeler
Ethel Whitehead
Thomas W.
Williams
J. Stitt
Wilson
Frank E.
Wolfe
H.E. Wright
Colorado
W.P. Collins
A.H. Floaten
Mary L. Geffs
Thomas M.
Todd
John Troxell
Connecticut
Sam E. Beardsley
(at large)
Ernest Berger
Edward Perkins
Clarke
Charles T.
Peach
Jasper McLevy
Delaware
Frank A.
Houck
District
of Columbia
W.J. Ghent
Florida
J.S. Alexander
C.C. Allen
Fred Stanley
Georgia
A.F. Castleberry
Max Wilk
Idaho
G.W. Beloit
Thomas J.
Coonrod
Sidney W.
Motley
Isaac Franklin
Stewart
Illinois
J.O. Bentall
Bernard Berlyn
Joseph R.
Burge
John C. Sjoden
Louis F.
Haemer
John C. Kennedy
Marshall
E. Kirkpatrick
George Koop
James P.
Larsen
Caroline
A. Lowe
F.T. Maxwell
Mary O'Reilly
W.E. Rodriguez
J.C. Sjoden
Seymour Stedman
George North
Taylor
Guy Underwood
Indiana
Samuel S.
Condo
W.W. Farmer
Janet Fenimore
Stephen C.
Garrison
William H.
Henry
James Oneal
S.M. Reynolds
William Sheffler
Florence
Wattles
Iowa
James Baxter
Margaret
D. Brown
John Juul
Jacobsen
Lee W. Lang
Irving S.
McCrillins
Kansas
Oscar H.
Blase
George D.
Brewer
Allan W.
Ricker
L.F. Fuller
May Wood-Simons
S.M. Stallard
Benjamin
Franklin Wilson
Kentucky
Charles Dobbs
Walter Lanfersiek
Louisiana
J.R. Jones
Maine
George Allen
England
Maryland
Charles D.
Backman
A.E. Hartig
Dr. J. Rosett
C.W. Staub
Massachusetts
James F.
Carey
Alex Coleman
Charles E.
Fenner
Joseph M.
Coldwell
Robert Lawrence
Patrick Mahoney
J.G. Ohsol
Rose Tenner
George E.
Roewer, Jr.
Dan A. White
Michigan
Frank Aaltonen
James Hoogerhyde
Guy H. Lockwood
Hamilton
S. McMaster
Etta Menton
J.A.C. Menton
James H.
McFarland
Minnesota
A.O. Devold
Marietta
E. Fournier
John H. Grant
Nels S. Hillman
J.S. Ingalls
Olaus Jacobson
Morris Kaplan
Thomas Erwin
Latimer
J.G. Maattala
David Morgan
Jay E. Nash
O.S. Watkins
Mississippi
M.E. Fritz
Missouri
Ernest Theodore
Behrens
William Lincoln
Garver
Caleb Lipscomb
George W.
O'Dam
Otto Vierling
W.A. Ward
Montana
Lewis J.
Duncan
Clarence
A. Smith
Jacob M.
Kruse
James B.
Scott
Philip H.
Christian
Nebraska
C.R. Oyler
Fred J. Warren
Clyde J.
Wright
Nevada
Grant Miller
New Hampshire
John P. Burke
William A.
McCall
New Jersey
Henry Carless
Christopher
J. Cosgrove
George H.
Goebel
J.R. Jones
Wilson B.
Killingbeck
Harry F.
Kopp
Frederick
Krafft
James M.
Reilly
Gustave Theimer
New Mexico
J.B. Lang
New York
Charles J.
Ball., Jr.
Fred Bennetts
William Burckle
Edward F.
Cassidy
William E.
Duffy
Otto Endres
C.L. Furman
Morris Hillquit
Algernon
Lee
Edward Lindgren
Meyer London
Theresa Malkiel
James A.
Mansett
Herbert M.
Merrill
Albert Pauly
Clinton H.
Pierce
G. Rothmund
Charles Edward
Russell
Harvey A.
Simmons
Henry Slobodin
U. Solomon
Gustave A.
Strebel
Joshua Wanhope
North
Carolina
Benjamin
T. Tiller
North
Dakota
A.E. Bowen,
Jr.
Robert Grant
Charles D.
Kelso
Arthur LeSueur
Ohio
Jacob L.
Bachman
William Bessemer
Max Boehm
Tom Clifford
(at large)
D. Lewis
Davis
Dominic J.
Farrell
W. Hinkel
Edward John
Jones
Dan McCartan
William Patterson
Edgar Eugene
Powell
F.N. Prevey
Marguerite
Prevey
Charles M.
Priestap
C.E. Ruthenberg
Anna Katherine
Storck
Frederick
Guy Strickland
Lawrence
A. Zitt
Oklahoma
Oscar Ameringer
Otto F. Branstetter
Carrie C.
Block
J.T. Cumbie
Roscoe Emin
Dooley
L.B. Irvin
Patrick S.
Nagle
George E.
Owen
E. Schilling
John G. Wills
Oregon
Maurice E.
Dorfman
John Hayden
Tom J. Lewis
Floyd C.
Ramp
C.W. Sherman
Pennsylvania
George W.
Bacon
J. Mahlon
Barnes
Cora Mae
Bixler
Leroy Rutherford
Bruce
Dan M. Caldwell
Anna Cohen
Joseph E.
Cohen
Frank A.
Davis
C.W. Ervin
C.F. Foley
Lewis Goaziou
Richard L.
Grainger
James C.
Hogan
Gertrude
Breslau Hunt
Charles A.
Maurer
James H.
Maurer
Frederick
Hall Merrick
Edward Moore
William Parker
W.A. Prosser
Robert B.
Ringler
John W. Slayton
Alfred George
Ward
Robert J.
Wheeler
David Williams
Lorenzo Birch
Wilson, Jr.
John C. Young
Rhode
Island
James P.
Reid
Edward W.
Theinert
South
Carolina
William Eberhard
South
Dakota
Benjamin
Dempsey
Texas
Richey Alexander
George C.
Edwards
Charles A.
Byrd
Edward A.
Green
Thomas Aloysius
Hickey
Ernest Richard
Meitzen
Will S. Noble
Jacob Chesley
Rhodes
L.L. Rhodes
M.A. Mith
J.C. Thompson
B. William
Utah
Homer P.
Burt
James A.
Smith
William Morris
Wesley
Vermont
John Spargo
Virginia
George Milton
Norris
Washington
Leslie E.
Aller
Adam H. Barth
Frans Bostrom
Edwin J.
Brown
William H.
Wing
Emma D. Cory
H.C. Cupples
Henry Hensefer
Anna Agnes
Maley
Kate Sadler
Samuel Sadler
W.H. Waynick
Hulet M.
Wells
West Virginia
C.H. Boswell
H.W. Houston
E.H. Kintzer
Wisconsin
Victor L.
Berrger
Dan W. Hoan
Winfield
R. Gaylord
W.A. Jacobs
Thomas Hinklein
Emil Seidel
Elizabeth
H. Thomas
Carl D. Thompson
Wyoming
Antony Carlson
Paul J. Paulsen
J. Suaja
Foreign-Speaking
Organizations
(non-voting delegates)
Josef Novak
(Bohemian)
Leo Laukki
(Finnish)
Joseph Corti
(Italian)
H. Gluski
(Polish Section)
Zdzislow
Banka (Polish Alliance)
Christian
Larsen (Scandinavian)
Frank Petrich
(South Slavic)
source:
Roll call
at first day's session, National Convention of the Socialist
Party: Held at Indianapolis, Ind., May 12 to 18, 1912, Stenographic
Report... (Chicago: The Socialist Party, 1912), pp. 3-4,
with the addition of delegates missing the initial roll call
but voting in a May 16 roll call vote (Ibid., pp. 83-85).