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Delegates to the 1921 Convention of the Socialist Party of America

Convention was held June 25 - 29, 1921, at Detroit, Michigan

There were a total of 39 delegates and 11 fraternal delegates, representing 21 states and 2 organizational districts.

 

California

Cameron H. King -- (San Francisco)

 

Connecticut

Martin F. Plunkett -- (Wallingford)

 

District of Columbia

J.W. Richman -- (Washington)

 

Illinois

J. Louis Engdahl -- (Chicago)

William F. Kruse -- (Chicago)

W.F. Wenschoff -- (Mt. Olive)

 

Indiana

John C. Lewis -- (Elwood)

 

Iowa

Fred Feuchter -- (Davenport)

 

Kansas

Ross Magill -- (Garnett)

 

Kentucky

W.A. Sandefur -- (Robards)

 

Maryland

S.M. Neistadt -- (Baltimore)

 

Massachusetts

Harry Fieldman -- (Springfield)

Henry Puranen -- (Fitchburg)

George E. Roewer Jr. -- (Boston)

 

Michigan

Lazarus S. Davidow -- (Detroit)

 

Missouri

G.A. Hoehn -- (St. Louis)

 

New Hampshire

George Cheatham -- (Manchester)

 

New Jersey

Milo C. Jones -- (Newark)

 

New York

Morris Hillquit -- (New York)

Algernon Lee -- (New York)

Charles W. Noonan -- (Schenectady)

Benjamin Orr -- (Bronx)

Charles Solomon -- (Brooklyn)

H.D. Wilcox -- (Elmira)

 

Northwest Organizational District

Otto Newman -- (Portland, OR)

 

Ohio

Jacob Ojala -- (Ashtabula)

John G. Willert -- (Cleveland)

 

Oklahoma

L.A. Stanwood

 

Pennsylvania

Joseph E. Cohen -- (Philadelphia)

Rose Coleman -- apparently a substitute for Jane W. Tait of Pittsburgh

Birch Wilson -- (Reading)

 

Rhode Island

Peter Marcus -- (Providence)

 

Southern Organizational District

H.F. Flanagan -- (Atlanta, GA)

 

Utah

O.A. Kennedy -- (Ogden)

 

West Virginia

C.W. Kirkendall // apparently a substitute for S.J. Gordon of Charleston//

 

Wisconsin

C.A. Boorman -- (Wisconsin Rapids)

Victor L. Berger -- (Milwaukee)

William Coleman -- (Milwaukee)

Daniel W. Hoan -- (Milwaukee)

 

 

-- NON-VOTING DELEGATES --

 

National Executive Committee

Otto Branstetter

Brandt

Henry

Bertha Mailly

Ed Melms

 

Bohemian [Czech] Federation

C. Kolarik

 

German Federation

Adolph Dreifuss

 

Finnish Federation

G. Makela

 

Italian Federation

Girolamo Valenti

 

Yugoslav [Slovenian] Federation

Frank Petrich

 

Young People's Socialist League

Morris Novick

 

 

 

source: "Minutes of the National Convention, Socialist Party," in The Socialist World [Chicago], v. 2, no. 6/7 (June-July 1921), pg. 24.