Stephen S. Stolowski was a printer

Printer

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 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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 for the 14th Milwaukee County district (14th and 24th wards of the City of Milwaukee).

Background

Stolowski was born in Milwaukee on August 17, 1893. He was educated in the parochial

Parochial school

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 and public schools  and also studied economics

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 in the night school

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 of the University of Wisconsin-Extension

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 Division. He became a printer by trade.

Assembly service

Stolowski had never held any public office until elected to the Assembly in 1920 to succeed Socialist incumbent John Masiakowski

John Masiakowski

John Masiakowski was a stationer from Milwaukee, Wisconsin who served one term as a Socialist member of the Wisconsin State Assembly for the 14th Milwaukee County district .- Background :...

 (who did not run for re-election). He received 2,800 votes to 2,169 for Republican

Republican Party (United States)

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 Klemens Boruki and 1,208 for Democrat

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 Alex Gramza. He was assigned to the standing committee

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 on state affairs.

The Assembly was redistricted in 1920, and his wards were split between the new 8th and 11th Milwaukee County districts respectively. Stolowski did not run for re-election in 1922; both districts elected Socialists (John Polakowski (legislator) and Olaf C. Olsen

Olaf C. Olsen

Olaf C. Olsen was a Socialist from Milwaukee. He was a law student at Marquette University Law School in 1922 when he was elected to the first of his two terms in the Wisconsin State Assembly representing the 11th Milwaukee County district .- Background :Olsen was born February 26, 1899 in...

).