Charles Burhop was a Socialist

Socialist Party of America

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 cigar

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A cigar is a tightly-rolled bundle of dried and fermented tobacco that is ignited so that its smoke may be drawn into the mouth. Cigar tobacco is grown in significant quantities in Brazil, Cameroon, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Indonesia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Philippines, and the Eastern...

maker and saloon

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keeper from Sheboygan

Sheboygan, Wisconsin

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, Wisconsin

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 who served one term (1919–1920) in the Wisconsin State Assembly

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Background

Burhop was born in Sheboygan on December 5, 1882. (His parents, Fred and Anna, had immigrated to Sheboygan from their native Hanover

Hanover

Hanover or Hannover, on the river Leine, is the capital of the federal state of Lower Saxony , Germany and was once by personal union the family seat of the Hanoverian Kings of Great Britain, under their title as the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg...

 earlier that year.) He was educated in the public schools, and became a cigarmaker, a trade which he followed for 16 years (his older brothers William and Fred owned a cigar factory). Burhop was a Cigar Makers' International Union

Cigar Makers' International Union

The Journeymen Cigar Makers' International Union of America was a labor union established in 1864 that represented workers in the cigar industry...

 delegate to the Wisconsin Federation of Labor's 19th annual convention, held in La Crosse

La Crosse, Wisconsin

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 in July 1911, where he served on the convention's Resolutions Committee along with (inter alia) fellow Socialist Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg

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, a delegate from News-writers Union Local 9 of Milwaukee. He served four terms on the Sheboygan County Board of Supervisors, representing two different wards. When elected to the Assembly in 1918 he had "been engaged in the saloon business" for five years.

Assembly

He was the first Socialist ever elected to the assembly from Sheboygan County, being elected to represent the first Sheboygan County district (City of Sheboygan; Town of Sheboygan

Sheboygan (town), Wisconsin

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; and Village of Kohler

Kohler, Wisconsin

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) in 1918 when he received 2,082 votes to 1,433 for Republican

Republican Party (United States)

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 Henry L. Mueller, and 697 for Democrat

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 John B. Steffes. (The Republican incumbent, ship chandler

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 John J. Koepsell, was not a candidate for re-election.) Burhop was defeated for re-election in 1920 by Republican William G. Kaufmann.