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National Milwaukee Mayors

Happy Birthday former Milwaukee mayor Peter Somers

Peter J Somers, an Irish-American mayor of Milwaukee, was born on April 12, 1850 in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin.Somers attended Whitewater Normal...
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America's last socialist mayor born today

Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on September 20, 1912, Frank P. Zeidler was the last of Milwaukee's great socialist mayors and the last socialist...
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Where three rivers met so too met three founding fathers

Where three Wisconsin rivers converge, the Milwaukee, Menomonee, and Kinnickinnic, a rich marsh formed and Native Americans had gathered there for...
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Happy Birthday, Daniel Hoan

Daniel Webster Hoan was born on March 12, 1881 in Waukesha, Wisconsin. He quit school early, but took evening classes until he qualified as a...
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Milwaukee's first multi-term mayor

Squeezed between the mayoral terms of two of Milwaukee's founders, Byron Kilbourn and George H. Walker, was one Don Alonzo Joshua Upham, the...
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Milwaukee street names have Chicago ties

Most residents of Milwaukee are well aware of the rivalry between the Brew City and the Windy City, Chicago. Some of this rivalry is sports related...
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Hoan Bridge honors great socialist mayor

As the debate over saving the Daniel Hoan Memorial Bridge heats up, it's time to pause and reflect upon the man the Hoan Bridge was named after...
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Celebrate the birthday of Milwaukee's founder

Laurent Solomon Juneau was born on August 9, 1793 in Repentigny, Quebec, Canada. As the Horicon Argus wrote in Solomon Juneau's obituary, "Mr....
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A brief history of Summerfest

Summerfest started out in the 1960s as a dream by Mayor Henry W. Maier after a visit to Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany. With Milwaukee's German...
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The singing mayor of Milwaukee

Carl Frederick Zeidler shocked the city of Milwaukee in 1940 by defeating long time socialist mayor Daniel Hoan. Zeidler was a political neophyte...
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