Good morning.
It’s a snowy day in Whitewater, with a high temperature just above freezing.
On this day in 1868, the U.S. House impeached Pres. Andrew Johnson, who was later acquitted by the Senate.
From the Wisconsin Historical Society, a reminder that Milwaukee once had a socialist mayor, among other socialist politicians:
1972 – Socialist Leader Otto Hauser Dies
On this date former Baptist minister and Milwaukee Socialist leader, Otto Robert Hauser, died in Madison. Hauser was born in Tubingen, Germany, on May 11, 1886 and immigrated to the United States in 1906. In Chicago, he found employment with Marshall Field & Co., and attended the University of Chicago Theological Seminary.
In 1915 he accepted a call to the First German Baptist Church in Milwaukee where he remained until late 1927, when he resigned to enter politics.
In 1916 Hauser joined the Socialist Party. He held a variety of posts in the party including serving as director of the “Milwaukee Leader.” Between 1932 and 1940, Hauser was secretary to Milwaukee’s Socialist mayor, Daniel W. Hoan. In 1945 Hauser helped to organize American Relief for Germany, and served as the organization’s president from 1945 to 1951. Hauser’s fundraising efforts enabled American Relief for Germany to send approximately $3.5 million in aid. In appreciation, the German Federal Republic awarded him the Cross of Merit in 1956. [Source: University of Wisconsin–Archives Department]
Google daily puzzle tests one’s knowledge of the states, and of public policy, today: “If you go for scenic drives in the states that rank 40th, 41st, 47th and 49th in population, you will be unable to see something visible in all the other states. What won’t you see?”