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Delegates to the 1924 Convention of the Socialist Party of America

Convention was held July 6 - 8, 1924, in Cleveland, OH

The official count was 157 delegates and alternates, but only 155 of these answered the first roll call and were published in the published minutes of the gathering.

 

California

Alexander Horr

Cameron H. King

Lena Morrow Lewis

Walter Thomas Mills

 

Connecticut

William Cahil

Walter E. Davis

Louis Krahl

Mrs. Louis Krahl

 

District of Columbia

Marx Lewis

 

Illinois

Tilden Bozarath

Katherine Claus

John Collins

William A. Cunnea

John Frank Danis

Swan Johnson

George Koop

Morris Siskind

W.R. Snow

John T. Whitlock

Dave Woodhouse

 

Indiana

William Fogelson

Emma Henry

William H. Henry

Severino Pollo

 

Kentucky

John Thobe

 

Maryland

S.M. Neistadt

James L. Smiley

William A. Toole

 

Massachusetts

Albert Sprague Coolidge

George E. Roewer Jr.

Helena Turitz

 

Michigan

M. Wagman

Louis Wise

 

Minnesota

A.B. Bastis

D. Shier

Lynn Thompson

 

Missouri

W.M. Brandt

B. Cohen

W.L. Garver

G.A. Hoehn

 

Mountain States Organizational District

O.A. Kennedy

 

New England Organizational District

A.J. Parker

 

New Jersey

Alfred Altert

George Bauer

Charlotte Bohlin

James B. Furber

George H. Goebel

Leo M. Harkins

Herman Niessner

 

New York

Warren Atkinson

Simon Berlin

Morris Berman

Jacob Bernstein

Harriot Stanton Blatch

S. John Block

Joseph D. Cannon

August Claessens

Henry Feuer

Julius Gerber

Morris Hillquit

William Karlin

Joseph Kooperman

Edwin D. Ladd

Algernon Lee

May Harris Mainland

Herbert M. Merrill

Patrick J. Murphy

Ray Newkirk

James Oneal

Jacob Panken

W.W. Passage

A.I. Shiplacoff

Charles Solomon

Joseph F. Viola

Louis Waldman

Irving M. Weiss

J.A. Whitehorn

 

Alexander Kahn (Alternate)

Edward H. MacDonald (Alternate)

 

North Carolina

M.E. Edson

 

Northwestern States Organizational District (WA, OR, ID, MT)

F.M. Dwyer

Emil Herman

 

Ohio

J.H. Bjorn

Thomas C. Devine

Oscar K. Edelman

Thodore Johnson

Anna Kiel

Joseph Martinek

Jacob Ojala

Joseph W. Sharts

Nick Weltlich

John G. Willert

 

Oklahoma

O.E. Enfield (Alternate)

 

Pennsylvania

William Adams

J. Aulenbach

Cora Bixler

Joseph E. Cohen

Harry Eckard

Darlington Hoopes

H. Levine

Alfred Baker Lewis

P.A. McGowan

Charles Sehl

Frank Silvis

George W. Snyder

Sidney Stark

J. Henry Stump

William J. Van Essen

Anna Van Essen

George Weinstein

Julius Weisberg

John Weisberg (1/2 vote)

Louis Zeff (1/2 vote)

 

Rhode Island

Peter Marcus

 

Texas

C.T. Stopper

Robert M. Young

 

West Virginia

I. G. Miller

 

Wisconsin

John Bauernfeind

Victor L. Berger

William Coleman

Dr. Karl L. DeSombre

Pauline Deuss

Thomas M. Duncan

Paul Gauer

Daniel W. Hoan

Herman O. Kent

Edmund T. Melms

Joseph A. Padway

William F. Quick

Charles C. Schad

William F. Schultz

Arthur Shutkin

Henry Sievenhaar

Herman Tucker

Ernest Untermann

S. Ziebelman

 

Meta Berger (Alternate)

John Doerfler Jr. (Alternate)

J.J. Handley (Alternate)

Henry Ohl (Alternate)

Aaron Rosenthal (Alternate)

H.M. Seidelman (Alternate)

 

Young People's Socialist League

Oscar Albrecht

Harry Bordman

Morris Novick

Albert Weisbord

 

Bohemian [Czech] Federation

Alois Kostka

 

Finnish Federation

W.N. Reivo

 

Italian Federation

James Battistoni

Girolamo Valenti

 

Jewish [Yiddish] Federation

Nathan Chanin

H. Lang

David Shub

 

Yugoslav [Slovenian] Federation

Charles Pogorelec

Andrew Sogatay

Frank Zaitz

 

source: "Minutes of the National Convention, Socialist Party," in The Socialist World [Chicago], v. 5, no. 7 (July 1924), pp. 9-10.