Delegates to the 1919 Convention of the Socialist Party of America (Aug. 30 (original) (raw)

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.

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