Fred J. Hasley was an American

United States

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 typesetter from Milwaukee  who served one term as a Socialist

Socialist Party of America

The Socialist Party of America was a multi-tendency democratic-socialist political party in the United States, formed in 1901 by a merger between the three-year-old Social Democratic Party of America and disaffected elements of the Socialist Labor Party which had split from the main organization...

 member of the Wisconsin State Assembly

Wisconsin State Assembly

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Background

Hasley was born in Milwaukee on December 5, 1884 and was educated in the Milwaukee Public Schools

Milwaukee Public Schools

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, graduating in 1900, and going into the printer's trade. He became a member of the Typographical Union

International Typographical Union

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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 Edwin Knappe

Edwin Knappe

Edwin W. Knappe was an American machinist from Milwaukee who became a lawyer, and who served one term as a Socialist member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.- Background :...

 in representing the Tenth Milwaukee County Assembly District (the 21st and 25th Wards

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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

Standing Committee

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 on labor.

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

Redistricting

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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

Frank J. Weber

Frank J. Weber was a seaman, carpenter and union organizer from Milwaukee who between 1907 and 1926 served five terms as a Socialist member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.- Background :...

 and Thomas M. Duncan, both of whom were elected without opposition.