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Delegates to the 1919 Emergency Convention of the Socialist Party of America
Convention was held August 30 - September 5, 1919 at Chicago, IL
A roll call vote determined that 31 accredited delegates had thrown in their lot with the Communist Labor Party.
This list includes 119 delegates with vote from 22 states.
Arkansas
Fannie Crowell
W.K. Tennyson
Colorado
H. Interman
Fred Underhill
Connecticut
Harry L., Edlin
John P. McCarthy
Martin F. Plunket
District of Columbia
Mrs. E.S. Cohen
Illinois
Henry Askeli
O.J. Brown
J. Louis Engdahl
Adolph Germer
W.G. Hammond
William F. Kruse
Andrew Lafin
Seymour Stedman
F.W. Wenschoff
Oliver C. Wilson
Indiana
Ross D. Brown
William H. Henry
Lilith Martin
Iowa
George J. Peck
Kansas
Ida A. Beloof
Maryland
Frederick Haller
Samuel M. Neistadt
Massachusetts
Victor Annalia
Joseph Bearsk
Abraham Boxer
Jacob Goldberg
Peter Kastoff
George Makela
Louis Marcus
George E. Roewer, Jr.
S. Victersen
Lewis Victor
Michigan
I. Finkelstein
Lazarus Davidow
Henry Lipscone
A. Rubenstein
C.G. Taylor
Missouri
William Brandt
C.A. Hoehn
Jacob Kasener
Montana
A.H. Floaten
New Hampshire
Francis T. Busler
Fred B. Chase
New Jersey
Valentine Bausch
George Goebel
Milo C. Jones
Frederick Krafft
Patrick L. Quinlan
Rose Weiss
New York
James Battistoni
Abraham Beckerman
David P. Berenberg
S. John Block
Alexander Braimsteom
A.G. Breckenridge
August Claessens
Walter M. Cook
J.W. Dennis
Max Lulow
Julius Gerber
Benjamin Glassberg
Wilho Hedman
William Karlin
Algernon Lee
Bertha H. Mailly
Theresa Malkiel
Charles W. Noonan
James Oneal
Samuel Orr
Jacob Panken
Wilhelmus B. Robinson
Charles H. Roth
Jacob B. Salutsky
Fred Sander
James C. Sheahan
Abraham I. Shiplacoff
Charles Solomon
Alexander Trachtenberg
Louis Waldman
Eugene Wood
H.D. Wilcox
Oklahoma
J.E. Bartoe
E.L. Moore
J.S. Nagle
Clara Smith
Olive Stauber
Oregon
Lauri Moilanen
Pennsylvania
J. Aeurbach
Cora M. Bixler
Joseph E. Cohen
Oliver Drawford
James Downs
William Euler
Edward W. Haydon
John G. Means
Henry W. Schlegel
Charles Sehl
Charles Selleman
J. Henry Stump
David Siegel
Burch Wilson
William Wricght
Elmer H. Young
Rhode Island
Joseph Coldwell
E. Horaceck
West Virginia
J.H. Snider
Wisconsin
Oscar Ameringer
Victor L. Berger
William Coleman
K.L. Desombre
John Doerfler, Jr.
Daniel W. Hoan
John P. Jensen
Herman F. Marth
Medmund T. Melms
John H. Sims
FRATERNAL DELEGATES (non-voting)
Minnesota -- consultative status only, no vote
S. Friedman
Andrew Hanson
George Hoffman
H.L. Kammerman
Charles S. Wells
Foreign-Speaking Organizations
Y.H. Halonen (Finnish Federation)
Charles Kolarik (Bohemian [Czech] Federation)
Charles Korenich (Slovak Federation)
John LaDuca (Italian Federation)
J. Mill (Jewish Federation)
source: The World [Oakland, CA], whole no. 703 (Sept. 12, 1919) pg. 1, with additions of Coldwell and Goebel based on Taylor's memoir account of the proceedings.