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Delegates to the 1912 Convention of the Socialist Party of America

Convention was held May 12-18, 1912, at Indianapolis, Indiana.

 

The gathering was attended by 287 voting delegates and 8 non-voting delegates, representing 47 states plus the District of Columbia and 7 of the party's foreign language groups.

 

National Executive Secretary (non-voting delegate)

John M. Work

 

Alabama

G.L. Cox

 

Arizona

E.H. Allen

Erma Hyatt

Allen E. Johnston

 

Arkansas

Ida Callery

A.R. Finke

Dan Hogan

J.A.C. Meng

 

California

A.E. Briggs

C.K. Broneer

Edward Adams Cantrell

George W. Downing

Mary E. Garbutt

Job Harriman

E.H. Mizner

R.A. Maynard

A.W. Harris

Ernest L. Reguin

N.A. Richardson

H.C. Tuck

J.W. Wells

Fred C. Wheeler

Ethel Whitehead

Thomas W. Williams

J. Stitt Wilson

Frank E. Wolfe

H.E. Wright

 

Colorado

W.P. Collins

A.H. Floaten

Mary L. Geffs

Thomas M. Todd

John Troxell

 

Connecticut

Sam E. Beardsley (at large)

Ernest Berger

Edward Perkins Clarke

Charles T. Peach

Jasper McLevy

 

Delaware

Frank A. Houck

 

District of Columbia

W.J. Ghent

 

Florida

J.S. Alexander

C.C. Allen

Fred Stanley

 

Georgia

A.F. Castleberry

Max Wilk

 

Idaho

G.W. Beloit

Thomas J. Coonrod

Sidney W. Motley

Isaac Franklin Stewart

 

Illinois

J.O. Bentall

Bernard Berlyn

Joseph R. Burge

John C. Sjoden

Louis F. Haemer

John C. Kennedy

Marshall E. Kirkpatrick

George Koop

James P. Larsen

Caroline A. Lowe

F.T. Maxwell

Mary O'Reilly

W.E. Rodriguez

J.C. Sjoden

Seymour Stedman

George North Taylor

Guy Underwood

 

Indiana

Samuel S. Condo

W.W. Farmer

Janet Fenimore

Stephen C. Garrison

William H. Henry

James Oneal

S.M. Reynolds

William Sheffler

Florence Wattles

 

Iowa

James Baxter

Margaret D. Brown

John Juul Jacobsen

Lee W. Lang

Irving S. McCrillins

Kansas

Oscar H. Blase

George D. Brewer

Allan W. Ricker

L.F. Fuller

May Wood-Simons

S.M. Stallard

Benjamin Franklin Wilson

 

Kentucky

Charles Dobbs

Walter Lanfersiek

 

Louisiana

J.R. Jones

 

Maine

George Allen England

 

Maryland

Charles D. Backman

A.E. Hartig

Dr. J. Rosett

C.W. Staub

Massachusetts

James F. Carey

Alex Coleman

Charles E. Fenner

Joseph M. Coldwell

Robert Lawrence

Patrick Mahoney

J.G. Ohsol

Rose Tenner

George E. Roewer, Jr.

Dan A. White

 

Michigan

Frank Aaltonen

James Hoogerhyde

Guy H. Lockwood

Hamilton S. McMaster

Etta Menton

J.A.C. Menton

James H. McFarland

 

Minnesota

A.O. Devold

Marietta E. Fournier

John H. Grant

Nels S. Hillman

J.S. Ingalls

Olaus Jacobson

Morris Kaplan

Thomas Erwin Latimer

J.G. Maattala

David Morgan

Jay E. Nash

O.S. Watkins

 

Mississippi

M.E. Fritz

 

Missouri

Ernest Theodore Behrens

William Lincoln Garver

Caleb Lipscomb

George W. O'Dam

Otto Vierling

W.A. Ward

 

Montana

Lewis J. Duncan

Clarence A. Smith

Jacob M. Kruse

James B. Scott

Philip H. Christian

 

Nebraska

C.R. Oyler

Fred J. Warren

Clyde J. Wright

 

Nevada

Grant Miller

 

New Hampshire

John P. Burke

William A. McCall

 

New Jersey

Henry Carless

Christopher J. Cosgrove

George H. Goebel

J.R. Jones

Wilson B. Killingbeck

Harry F. Kopp

Frederick Krafft

James M. Reilly

Gustave Theimer

 

New Mexico

J.B. Lang

 

New York

Charles J. Ball., Jr.

Fred Bennetts

William Burckle

Edward F. Cassidy

William E. Duffy

Otto Endres

C.L. Furman

Morris Hillquit

Algernon Lee

Edward Lindgren

Meyer London

Theresa Malkiel

James A. Mansett

Herbert M. Merrill

Albert Pauly

Clinton H. Pierce

G. Rothmund

Charles Edward Russell

Harvey A. Simmons

Henry Slobodin

U. Solomon

Gustave A. Strebel

Joshua Wanhope

 

North Carolina

Benjamin T. Tiller

 

North Dakota

A.E. Bowen, Jr.

Robert Grant

Charles D. Kelso

Arthur LeSueur

Ohio

Jacob L. Bachman

William Bessemer

Max Boehm

Tom Clifford (at large)

D. Lewis Davis

Dominic J. Farrell

W. Hinkel

Edward John Jones

Dan McCartan

William Patterson

Edgar Eugene Powell

F.N. Prevey

Marguerite Prevey

Charles M. Priestap

C.E. Ruthenberg

Anna Katherine Storck

Frederick Guy Strickland

Lawrence A. Zitt

 

Oklahoma

Oscar Ameringer

Otto F. Branstetter

Carrie C. Block

J.T. Cumbie

Roscoe Emin Dooley

L.B. Irvin

Patrick S. Nagle

George E. Owen

E. Schilling

John G. Wills

 

Oregon

Maurice E. Dorfman

John Hayden

Tom J. Lewis

Floyd C. Ramp

C.W. Sherman

 

Pennsylvania

George W. Bacon

J. Mahlon Barnes

Cora Mae Bixler

Leroy Rutherford Bruce

Dan M. Caldwell

Anna Cohen

Joseph E. Cohen

Frank A. Davis

C.W. Ervin

C.F. Foley

Lewis Goaziou

Richard L. Grainger

James C. Hogan

Gertrude Breslau Hunt

Charles A. Maurer

James H. Maurer

Frederick Hall Merrick

Edward Moore

William Parker

W.A. Prosser

Robert B. Ringler

John W. Slayton

Alfred George Ward

Robert J. Wheeler

David Williams

Lorenzo Birch Wilson, Jr.

John C. Young

 

Rhode Island

James P. Reid

Edward W. Theinert

 

South Carolina

William Eberhard

 

South Dakota

Benjamin Dempsey

 

Texas

Richey Alexander

George C. Edwards

Charles A. Byrd

Edward A. Green

Thomas Aloysius Hickey

Ernest Richard Meitzen

Will S. Noble

Jacob Chesley Rhodes

L.L. Rhodes

M.A. Mith

J.C. Thompson

B. William

 

Utah

Homer P. Burt

James A. Smith

William Morris Wesley

Vermont

John Spargo

 

Virginia

George Milton Norris

 

Washington

Leslie E. Aller

Adam H. Barth

Frans Bostrom

Edwin J. Brown

William H. Wing

Emma D. Cory

H.C. Cupples

Henry Hensefer

Anna Agnes Maley

Kate Sadler

Samuel Sadler

W.H. Waynick

Hulet M. Wells

 

West Virginia

C.H. Boswell

H.W. Houston

E.H. Kintzer

 

Wisconsin

Victor L. Berrger

Dan W. Hoan

Winfield R. Gaylord

W.A. Jacobs

Thomas Hinklein

Emil Seidel

Elizabeth H. Thomas

Carl D. Thompson

 

Wyoming

Antony Carlson

Paul J. Paulsen

J. Suaja

 

Foreign-Speaking Organizations (non-voting delegates)

Josef Novak (Bohemian)

Leo Laukki (Finnish)

Joseph Corti (Italian)

H. Gluski (Polish Section)

Zdzislow Banka (Polish Alliance)

Christian Larsen (Scandinavian)

Frank Petrich (South Slavic)

 

source: Roll call at first day's session, National Convention of the Socialist Party: Held at Indianapolis, Ind., May 12 to 18, 1912, Stenographic Report... (Chicago: The Socialist Party, 1912), pp. 3-4, with the addition of delegates missing the initial roll call but voting in a May 16 roll call vote (Ibid., pp. 83-85).