Emil Seidel

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In the 1912 mayoral election, the Democratic and Republican parties joined forces to defeat Seidel, resulting in his loss to Gerhard Bading. Seidel then chose to run for Vice President of the United States on the Socialist ticket with Eugene V. Debs, and the pair won a respectable 897,011 votes in the 1912 presidential election. Most of his remaining political involvement was in local Milwaukee politics, but in 1932 he ran for a seat in the United States Senate in Wisconsin, winning 6% of the vote, the best showing for a socialist candidate running for the United States senate. Seidel served two more terms as alderman in Milwaukee, in 1916–20 and 1932–36, before his death.[1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Seidel

Frightening how 1 year before the FED came to be the socialist party gained the most votes it ever has.