Michigan Delegation to 1940 Democratic National Convention (original) (raw)

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| Michigan Delegation to the1940 Democratic National Convention Delegates (may be incomplete!) At-Large: Elizabeth L. Belen, Lansing - Prentiss M. Brown, St. Ignace - Theodore I. Fry, Fremont - Christine McDonald Huston, Detroit - Edmund C. Shields, Lansing - Elizabeth Stellwagen, Detroit - Clara Van Auken, Detroit - Murray D. Van Wagoner 1st District: George G. Sadowski, Detroit - Anthony J. Wilkowski, Detroit2nd District: Bert D. Chandler, Hudson - John W. Miner, Jackson3rd District: William L. Fitzgerald, Kalamazoo - Frank Moses, Marshall4th District: Ernest C. Engle, Centreville - Lester Farnum, St. Joseph5th District: Clifford McMann, Grand Rapids - Charles E. Misner, Grand Haven6th District: Margaret Brogan, Howell - George T. Gundry, Flint7th District: J. V. Messmore, Shelby Township, Macomb County - L. C. Sellers, Port Huron8th District: Harvey E. Kidder, Ionia - Louis C. Schwinger, Saginaw9th District: Frank Burns, Muskegon - Paul M. Knudstrup, Manistee10th District: John E. Keho, Bay City - Walter Russell, Bay City11th District: Carl McDonald, Menominee - Leon W. Miller, Petoskey12th District: D. Stephen Benzie, Norway - Frank E. Hook, Ironwood13th District: Charles C. Diggs, Sr., Detroit - Richard T. Frankensteen, Detroit - Harry H. Mead, Detroit - Gerald K. O'Brien, Detroit14th District: Louis C. Rabaut, Grosse Pointe Park - Ray D. Schneider- R. J. Thomas, Detroit - Bernard J. Youngblood 15th District: John D. Dingell, Detroit - Ruel H. Rice, Detroit16th District: Helena Barc, Dearborn - Wilfred C. Burke, River Rouge - John Lesinski, Dearborn - Percy Llewellyn, Dearborn17th District: G. Donald Kennedy, Pontiac - Albert E. Wilson, Detroit Alternates (may be incomplete!) At-Large: Ella Craft, Detroit - Charles W. Crane, Grand Rapids - William H. Dowling, Detroit - Ruth Kingscott, Kalamazoo - Geraldine Monaghan, Detroit - Violet Patterson- Charles S. Porritt, East Lansing - Horace A. White, Detroit1st District: Emmet Cunningham, Detroit - Frank Matulewicz, Hamtramck2nd District: Joe Guth, Erie - William L. Walz, Ann Arbor3rd District: Leo V. Card, Hillsdale - Floyd Fowler, Eaton Rapids4th District: Ethel Gibbon, Decatur - Lucille Schafer, Cassopolis5th District: William Delaney, Grand Rapids - Laurel L. Kosten, Grand Rapids6th District: Walter Krapohl, Flint - J. Gottlieb Reutter, Lansing7th District: John A. Anderson, Port Huron - Florence Carey, Lapeer8th District: Mrs. Arza Fisher, Crystal - Louis Gittleman, Stanton9th District: Duke Luedtke, Frankfort - Fred T. Roussin, Cadillac10th District: Dennis J. O'Keefe, Standish - Russell S. Pope, Bay City11th District: James D. Dotsch, Garden - Philip J. Glennie, Alpena12th District: Clarence D. Dwyer, Crystal Falls - Louise Libby, Marquette13th District: Clara I. DeVitis, Detroit - Elizabeth Foley, Detroit - Leo Lippa, Detroit - John D. O'Connell, Highland Park14th District: Lois D. Lusk, Detroit - Edith Lynch, Grosse Pointe Park - Emma B. Trombley, Detroit - Mary E. White, Detroit15th District: Birdie Dean, Detroit - Martha Kavanaugh, Detroit16th District: Mrs. James D. Friel, Detroit - James Guinan, Dearborn - Elmer R. Labadie, Ecorse - Albert J. Tavarozzi, Detroit17th District: Jules A. Bola, Ferndale - Hilla B. Willard, Hazel Park | | | 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