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Born in Austria-Hungary, Victor Berger came to Milwaukee in 1878 and taught public school before becoming editor of several German-language and socialist newspapers. Berger founded the U.S. Socialist Party and was the first Socialist elected to Congress. His opposition to World War I was highly unpopular and led Congressmen to refuse to let him occupy the Congressional seat he had rightly won for a time. This article, published the year Berger died, provides an overview of his life and the controversy that surrounded him.Citation
"Berger long a dynamo of the socialists." Milwaukee Sentinel. (17 July 1929);