Frank X. Bauer (October 4, 1862 – December 28, 1922) was an American brewery worker and beer truck driver from

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who served one term as a

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member of the

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Background

Bauer was born in the

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on October 4, 1862. He received his education in the country school near his home. In 1888 he came to America, going directly to Milwaukee. Two years later he went to work for a brewery and for 21 years was a bottled beer distributor. As of 1919 he had belonged to the Beer Drivers Union

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#72 for 27 years, and for four years had been

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and business agent for the Beer Drivers, Chauffeurs and Stablemen's Union Local 72, for Engineers' and Firemen's Union Local 25, and for

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s Union Local 89. He served as alderman of the 19th

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of the City of Milwaukee for two years.

Legislative service

Bauer was elected to the Assembly in 1918 for the 15th

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assembly district (the 15th and 19th wards of the City of Milwaukee), with 1,958 votes to 1,955 for incumbent Republican State Representative

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(to whom Bauer had lost in the 1916 election for the same seat) and 1,371 for

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Leonard Broennen. He was assigned to the

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on contingent

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. He was not a candidate for re-election in 1920, and was succeeded by Engel.''The Wisconsin blue book, 1921'' Madison: 1921; p. 282
/ref> He died on December 28, 1922.

References

1862 births Emigrants from the German Empire to the United States Brewery workers Members of the Wisconsin State Assembly Wisconsin city council members Politicians from Milwaukee Socialist Party of America politicians from Wisconsin American truck drivers 1922 deaths American trade unionists of German descent 20th-century members of the Wisconsin Legislature {{Wisconsin-WIAssembly-stub