Fred J. Hasley (December 5, 1884 – April 4, 1939) was an

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typesetter from Milwaukee who served one term as a Socialist member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.

Background

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

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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.

Public office

He was elected to the Assembly in 1920 to succeed fellow Socialist

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in representing the Tenth

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Assembly District (the 21st and 25th

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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. He did not run for re-election in 1922 after a

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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.

Death

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.'Ex-Assemblyman Leaps in Front of Street Car, Killed,' Wisconsin State Journal, April 5, 1939, pg. 1

References

1884 births 1939 suicides 1939 deaths Politicians from Milwaukee Members of the Wisconsin State Assembly Socialist Party of America politicians from Wisconsin Typesetters Suicides in Wisconsin American politicians who died by suicide 20th-century American legislators 20th-century Wisconsin politicians {{Wisconsin-WIAssembly-stub