Jack C. Bergen was a Bridgeport

Bridgeport, Connecticut

Bridgeport is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Connecticut. Located in Fairfield County, the city had an estimated population of 144,229 at the 2010 United States Census and is the core of the Greater Bridgeport area...

, Connecticut

Connecticut

Connecticut is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, and the state of New York to the west and the south .Connecticut is named for the Connecticut River, the major U.S. river that approximately...

 politician. An active Socialist Party of America

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 (secretary of the local branch), he was elected to the city

Bridgeport Public Schools

Bridgeport Public Schools is a school district headquartered in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States.The city's public school system has 30 elementary schools, three comprehensive high schools, two alternative programs and an interdistrict vocational aquaculture school...

 school board and in 1934 was elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives

Connecticut House of Representatives

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 as part of the Socialist sweep of local elections under Mayor Jasper McLevy

Jasper McLevy

Jasper McLevy was an American politician who served as mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut from 1933-1957. He was a member of the Socialist Party, later leaving in protest to join the Social Democratic Federation....

, while working as a Federal Emergency Relief Administration

Federal Emergency Relief Administration

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 supervisor. He later broke with McLevy over the latter's decision to bolt the SP and join the Social Democratic Federation.