Milwaukee Journal Green Sheet
January 8, 1992
The Upstart and the Upset
By Gerald Kloss
It was Milwaukee's biggest political upset in three decades: After 24 years as the city's mayor, Dan Hoan, 59, was decisively
beaten by a 32-year-old candidate, Carl Zeidler, in his first try for elective office in April 1940. How the heck did it ever
happen?
More than half a century later, the question still has immediacy. A new book boldly assers that Zeidler's secret weapon was a
pair of political novices - one aged 23, the other 25 - who called the shots in his flamboyant campaign.
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