August Claessens
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August "Gus" Claessens was a Swiss-born American socialist politician, best known as one of the five New York Assemblymen expelled from that body during the First Red Scare for their membership in the
Claessens in 1920
Clipping from the New York Daily News, January 12, 1920
Claessens c. 1953
Louis Waldman
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Louis Waldman was a Ukrainian-born Jewish-American garment worker, engineer, lawyer and politician who was a leading figure in the Socialist Party of America from the late 1910s through the mid-1930s.
Waldman in 1920
Waldman's official State Assembly portrait, 1918
Waldman as a candidate for governor on the front page of The New Leader, July 26, 1930
Louis Waldman as he appeared at the time of publication of his first memoir in 1944.