Fred Hasley
Fred J. Hasley (December 5, 1884 – April 4, 1939) was an American typesetter from Milwaukee who served one term as a Socialist member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.[1]
Background
[edit]Hasley was born in Milwaukee on December 5, 1884 and was educated in the Milwaukee Public Schools, graduating in 1900, and going into the printer's trade. He became a member of the Typographical Union Local 23 in 1904. He had never held a public office of any kind until being elected to the Assembly in 1920, although he had held offices in his union.[2]
Public office
[edit]He was elected to the Assembly in 1920 to succeed fellow Socialist Edwin Knappe in representing the Tenth Milwaukee County Assembly District (the 21st and 25th Wards of the City of Milwaukee). He ran unopposed (one of three Socialists in Milwaukee to do so that year), receiving 6,918 votes to 3 for other persons; and was appointed to the standing committee on labor.[3]
He did not run for re-election in 1922 after a redistricting split his district into the new Fourth and Third Milwaukee County Districts; and was succeeded by fellow Socialists Frank J. Weber and Thomas M. Duncan, both of whom were elected without opposition.[4]
Death
[edit]Hasley killed himself in Milwaukee County one half mile north of Silver Springs Road by leaping in front of an interurban electric street car and his body was dragged 45 feet. Hasley's sister said he was depressed about losing his job as a proofreader of a Milwaukee newspaper that went out of business a few months before.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Cannon, A. Peter, ed. Members of the Wisconsin Legislature: 1848 – 1999. State of Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau Informational Bulletin 99-1, September 1999; p. Archived December 9, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Milwaukee Printers Hold Annual Dance" Milwaukee Journal April 21, 1912; p. 4, col. 2
- ^ The Wisconsin blue book, 1921 Madison: 1921; p. 232, 280, 300
- ^ The Wisconsin blue book, 1923. Madison: 1923; p. 629
- ^ 'Ex-Assemblyman Leaps in Front of Street Car, Killed,' Wisconsin State Journal, April 5, 1939, pg. 1
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