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After graduating from Cornell University in 1926, Biemiller became active in the Socialist Party of America and was a key leader of its "militant" faction, which favored unity of action with the Communist Party USA. In 1932 he went to Milwaukee to work for the Socialist mayor of that city, Daniel Hoan. In 1936 he was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly as a Socialist, caucusing with the majority Progressive Party who elected him speaker, making him the only minor party speaker of a state legislature in the 20th century. Cornell University is a research university whose main campus is located on the East Hill of Ithaca, New York, and whose two medical campuses are located in New York City and in Education City, Qatar, near Doha. ... 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Election poster for Eugene V. Debs, Socialist Party of America candidate for President, 1904 The Socialist Party of America was a socialist political party in the United States, the historic American member party of the Socialist International. ... The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) is one of several Marxist-Leninist groups in the United States. ... 1932 (MCMXXXII) is a leap year starting on Friday. ... This article is about Milwaukee in Wisconsin. ... Daniel Webster Hoan (1881 - 1961) was a United States politician. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Wisconsin State Assembly is the lower house of the Wisconsin Legislature, and larger than the Wisconsin Senate. ... The United States Progressive Party refers to three distinct political parties in 20th-century United States politics. ... In the context of the United States political system, a third party is any political party organized in at least some states, other than the two current leading parties, which since the time of the American Civil War have always been the Democratic and the Republican parties. ...

Biemiller resigned from the Socialist Party when they supported the efforts of Philip La Follette to form a new national party, whom he regarded as a fascist, thus still at that late a date acting in concert with the Communist Party line. He was then elected as a Democrat to congress in 1944, defeated for re-election in 1946 but re-elected again in 1948. During this period Biemiller joined most of the other former Socialist "militants" in helping to found Americans for Democratic Action. He also reportedly ghost wrote the famous speech of Hubert Humphrey calling for a strong civil rights plank at the 1948 Democratic National Convention. La Follette, as pictured on a 1928 cover of Time Philip Fox La Follette (May 8, 1897–August 18, 1965), son of Robert M. La Follette, Sr. ... Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, was the authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. ... The Democratic Party is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ... The House of Representatives is the larger of two houses that make up the U.S. Congress, the other being the United States Senate. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Americans For Democratic Action (ADA) was formed in January 1947, when Eleanor Roosevelt, John Kenneth Galbraith, Reinhold Niebuhr, Hubert Humphrey and 200 other activists. ... Hubert Horatio Humphrey II (May 27, 1911–January 13, 1978) was the 38th Vice President of the United States, twice served as a United States Senator from Minnesota and was mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota. ... The 1948 Democratic National Convention was held in Philadelphia from July 12 to July 14, and resulted in the nomination of President Harry Truman for President and of Alben Barkley for Vice President. ...

After serving in congress, Biemiller served until his death as the chief lobbyist for the AFL-CIO. The AFL-CIO is the largest labor union federation in the United States. ...

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