Jacob Hahn was a cigar maker from Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Wisconsin

Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States and is part of the Midwest. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin's capital is...

 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

The Wisconsin State Assembly is the lower house of the Wisconsin Legislature. Together with the smaller Wisconsin Senate, the two constitute the legislative branch of the U.S. state of Wisconsin....

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Hahn was born in Wittlich

Wittlich

The town of Wittlich is the seat of the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, and thereby the middle centre for a feeder area of 56 municipalities in the Eifel and Moselle area with its population of roughly 64,000...

, Germany

German Empire

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 on October 10, 1871. He came to Milwaukee in 1883, attended the public schools, learned the craft of cigarmaking, and had been a trade union

Trade union

A trade union, trades union or labor union is an organization of workers that have banded together to achieve common goals such as better working conditions. The trade union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer on behalf of union members and negotiates labour contracts with...

 member of the Cigar Maker's 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...

 for the past thirteen years when elected.

Legislature

In 1910, Hahn was elected to the Fifth Milwaukee County Assembly seat (5th and 12th Wards

Wards of the United States

In the United States, a ward is an optional division of a city or town, especially an electoral district, for administrative and representative purposes...

 of the City of Milwaukee), unseating incumbent Democrat

Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...

 Michael Kalaher with 1,581 votes to 982 for Kalaher and 779 for Republican

Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...

 Albert T. Jenkins. He was assigned to the standing committee

Standing Committee

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s on excises and fees, and on engrossed bill

Engrossed bill

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By 1912, a redistricting

Redistricting

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 had split Hahn's district into two new districts matching the numbers of the wards which made them up. The new Fifth elected Democrat Charles Stemper, and the new Twelfth elected Hahn's fellow Socialist and union activist William L. Smith

William L. Smith (barber)

William L. Smith was a barber from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who served three terms as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.- Background and business :...

. Hahn returned to the cigar trade.