William F. Quick, Sr. | |
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| Member of theWisconsin Senate from the7th district | |
| In office January 1, 1923 – January 1, 1927 | |
| Preceded by | Louis A. Arnold |
| Succeeded by | Herbert H. Smith |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1885-07-31)July 31, 1885 |
| Died | December 12, 1966(1966-12-12) (aged 81) |
| Resting place | Mount Olivet Cemetery Milwaukee,Wisconsin |
| Party | Socialist |
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William F. Quick, Sr., (July 31, 1885 – December 12, 1966) was an Americanmachinist,[1]lawyer, andSocialist politician inMilwaukee,Wisconsin. He was the Socialist Party nominee forGovernor of Wisconsin in 1924 and served one term (1923–1926) in theWisconsin State Senate, representing the Milwaukee-based7th District.[2] After leaving the senate, he served as a civil court judge and city attorney in Milwaukee.
He is not to be confused with William F. Quick (born 1909) who served two terms asSergeant at Arms of theWisconsin State Assembly in the 1970s.
Quick was born in Milwaukee July 31, 1885. He was educated in theMilwaukee Public Schools and studied law innight school. He worked as a construction superintendent and a machinist, before becoming a lawyer practicing in Milwaukee.
At the 1920 national convention of the Socialist Party, he was a delegate who supported the unsuccessfulminority report, urging that the Socialist Party's affiliation with theThird International should be reaffirmed without reservations.[3]
Quick had never held public office before the November 1922 general election, in which he was elected to succeed fellow SocialistLouis A. Arnold in the 7th District (the 5th, 12th and 17thWards of the City of Milwaukee, theCities ofCudahy andSouth Milwaukee and theTowns ofLake andOak Creek) with 5,823 votes, defeatingRepublicanJohn S. Kanney (who polled 5,531 votes), with 747 votes forDemocrat Albert A. Ullenberg. He was assigned to thestanding committees on thejudiciary and oncontingentexpenditures.[4]
In 1924 he was the Socialist candidate forGovernor of Wisconsin, coming in third in a seven-way race with 5.68% of the vote, to RepublicanJohn J. Blaine's 51.76% and DemocratMartin L. Lueck's 39.87%. In the new Senate session, he was removed from the contingent expenditures committee, but remained on judiciary.[5]
He did not run for re-election in 1926, and was succeeded by RepublicanHerbert H. Smith.
Quick was appointed by his former foe, Governor Blaine, to serve as a civil court judge in 1926, when JudgeJoseph Padway (also a former Socialist legislator) resigned; and served until 1927,[6] when he was defeated by a"Nonpartisan" candidate.[7] In 1930 Quick was the Socialist nominee forCongress of the United States fromWisconsin's 4th congressional district, coming in second to RepublicanJohn C. Schafer with 36.22% of the vote, to Schafer's 46.63% and DemocratWilliam J. Kershaw's 15.46%.[8]
He was first assistantcity attorney for the City of Milwaukee from 1932-1936. When city attorneyMax Raskin was defeated, Quick went back into private practice with Raskin as a partner. He would later blame the "wrecked" state of his practice and his finances on the time that he had spent working for the city.[9]
In the September 1942primary elections, Quick and his son William F. Quick, Jr., each got fivewrite-in votes for Socialist city central committeeman from the 27th Ward; and William, Sr., got one vote as SocialistWisconsin State Assembly nominee from the 17th Assembly district. William, Jr., aProgressive Party committeeman, withdrew from the committeeman race in favor of his father, and William Sr. withdrew from the Assembly race in favor of former Alderman Leonard K. Place.[10]
He died in 1966.[11]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary Election, September 2, 1924 | |||||
| Republican | John J. Blaine | 230,985 | 49.57% | ||
| Republican | Arthur R. Hirst | 157,138 | 33.72% | ||
| Republican | George Comings | 36,666 | 7.87% | ||
| Democratic | Martin L. Lueck | 21,347 | 4.58% | ||
| Socialist | William F. Quick | 18,401 | 3.95% | ||
| Prohibition | Adolph R. Bucknam | 1,484 | 0.32% | ||
| Total votes | '466,021' | '100.0%' | |||
| General Election, November 4, 1924 | |||||
| Republican | John J. Blaine | 412,255 | 51.76% | −24.60% | |
| Democratic | Martin L. Lueck | 317,550 | 39.87% | +29.27% | |
| Socialist | William F. Quick | 45,268 | 5.68% | −2.53% | |
| Prohibition | Adolph R. Bucknam | 11,516 | 1.45% | −3.00% | |
| Communist | Severi Alanne | 4,107 | 0.52% | ||
| Independent Republican | Farrand K. Shuttleworth | 4,079 | 0.51% | ||
| Socialist Labor | Jose Snover | 1,452 | 0.18% | −0.12% | |
| Scattering | 205 | 0.03% | |||
| Total votes | '796,432' | '100.0%' | +65.29% | ||
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| Preceded by | Socialist nominee forGovernor of Wisconsin 1924 | Succeeded by |