Vito Marcantonio

Vito Marcantonio

male, deceased (1954)
death by myocardial infarction, Vito Anthony Marcantonio, AmericanLaborParty, Party switching, Italian-American, United States Republican Party…American, third party, republican party
Vito Anthony Marcantonio was an American lawyer and politician. Though originally a member of the Republican Party, he later switched to the...
David Dubinsky

David Dubinsky

male, deceased (1982)
industrial worker of the world, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, polish, Labor leader, Polish-American, Member of the Socialist Party of America…Belarusian American, American, AmericanLaborParty, Liberal Party of New York
David Dubinsky (David Dubnievski) (February 22, 1892 - September 17, 1982) was an American labor leader. He served as president of the...

Leo Isacson

male, deceased (1996)
New York University, from New York, nova southeastern university, new york university school of law, New York State Assembly, 1968 Democratic National Convention…AmericanLaborParty, American Labor
Leo Isacson (April 20, 1910 - September 28, 1996) was an American Labor member of the United States House of Representatives from New York. Isacson...

John T. McManus

male
reporter, New York Times, Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, AmericanLaborParty, Left-wing politics, progressivism…American
John T. McManus (born 1905, date of death unknown) was an American journalist and well-known name in progressive politics in the 1950s and 1960s....

William F. Brunner

male, deceased (1965)
Public officeholders of Rockaway, Queen, Far Rockaway, Queen, Woodhaven, Queen, from New York, United States Navy sailor, sheriff…AmericanLaborParty
William Frank Brunner was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Woodhaven, Queens, he attended the public schools, Far Rockaway...

Dorothy Jacobs Bellanca

female, deceased (1946)
Labor leader, great depression, trade union, unemployment, Trade unionist, American…labor, AmericanLaborParty
Dorothy Jacobs Bellanca (August 10, 1894 - August 16, 1946) was an American labor activist who particularly represented women workers in the...

Frank Rudolph Crosswaith

male, deceased (1965)
from the United States Virgin Islands, Jewish Daily Forward, Harlem, u.s. virgin islands, socialism, American…Harlem Labor Committee, Negro Labor Committee, AmericanLaborParty
Frank Rudolph Crosswaith (1892-1965) was a longtime socialist and labor leader in New York City. He was the founder and chairman of the Negro Labor...

Frank Crosswaith

male
Harlem, socialist, negro, socialist party, chairman, Mayor…Harlem Labor Committee, Negro Labor Committee, AmericanLaborParty, Negro Labor News Services, American Federation of Labor Trade Union
Frank Crosswaith (1892-1965) Socialist, union organizer, and civil rights crusader Frank Rudolph Crosswaith was born on St. Croix in 1892. At age...

William O’Dwyer

male
Republican, brigadier general, democratic party, liberal, Mayor, army…AmericanLaborParty
William O’Dwyer enlisted in the Army and achieved the rank of Brigadier General. In 1945, with the support of the Tammany Democrats, O’Dwyer won...

Paul O’Dwyer

male
Republican, american communist party, Mayor, alp, Liberal Party, AmericanLaborParty
O’Dwyer ran for mayor against Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia in 1941, but lost (LaGuardia, City Fusion, United City, American Labor and the Re...