Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....WEBER, FRANK J.  August 7, 1849 - 
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MILWAUKEE COUNTY

Third District. Twenty-fifth ward.

FRANK J. WEBER (Soc. Dem.) was born in the city of Milwaukee,
Aug. 7, 1849. In 1852 his parents moved to the village of
Grafton, Ozaukee county. Attended the district school at Ulao.
He learned the trade of seaman, when a seaman had to be
capable of building and fitting out a sailing ship from laying
the keel to the placing of the mast truct, in which capacity
he visited all of the most important seaports of the world. He
became a member of the Knights of Labor in 1869 when it yet
had the system of accepting members by and through the
committee of the Unknown Knights, and he has been a member of
labor organizations ever since. He organized the Wisconsin
State Federation of Labor in 1893 and was continuously an
officer thereof until 1917, when he declined to continue as
such. He is general secretary of the Milwaukee Federated
Trades Council since 1902. He was a member of the assembly in
1907, 1909, 1911 and 1915 and was elected without opposition
as a member of the 1923 assembly from the third assembly
district of Milwaukee county, receiving 3,098 votes.

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Additional Comments:
The Wisconsin Blue Book. The State Printing Board, 1923. 598 -
640. 

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