With the retirement of Mayor Frank Zeidler in 1960, [[Socialist]]s had occuppied the mayor's office for 38 of the previous 50 years, attesting to Milwaukee's reputation as the preeminent Socialist stronghold in the [[United States]].<ref>[http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/wmh&CISOPTR=21754&CISOSHOW=21702&REC=6 ''The Socialist party and the union in Milwaukee, 1900-1912],'' Wisconsin magazine of history: Volume 44, number 2, winter 1960-1961.</ref> | With the retirement of Mayor Frank Zeidler in 1960, [[Socialist]]s had occuppied the mayor's office for 38 of the previous 50 years, attesting to Milwaukee's reputation as the preeminent Socialist stronghold in the [[United States]].<ref>[http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/wmh&CISOPTR=21754&CISOSHOW=21702&REC=6 ''The Socialist party and the union in Milwaukee, 1900-1912],'' Wisconsin magazine of history: Volume 44, number 2, winter 1960-1961.</ref> |