The Political Graveyard: Wagenknecht-Winter family

Wagenknecht-Winter family

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Alfred Wagenknecht (1881-1956) — also known as Paul Holt; A. B. Mayer; A. B. Martin; U. P. Duffy — of Seattle, King County, Wash.; Ohio. Born in Görlitz, Germany, August 15, 1881. Married 1905 to Hortense Allison (sister of Elmer T. Allison); father of Helen Allison Winter (who married Carl Winter). Socialist candidate for U.S. Representative from Washington at-large, 1906, 1912; executive secretary, Communist Labor Party, 1919-20; executive secretary, United Communist Party, 1920-21; national secretary, Friends of Soviet Russia, 1922. Died August 26, 1956. Interment at Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Ill.
Elmer T. Allison (1883-1982) — of Seattle, King County, Wash.; Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio; Manhattan, New York County, N.Y.; Bethel, Fairfield County, Conn.; Washington. Born in Houstonia, Pettis County, Mo., December 5, 1883. Son of Nathaniel Allison and Mattie (Johnson) Allison; married 1908 to Anna Theresa Swanson; married 1922 to Rose Rosen; brother of Hortense Allison (who married Alfred Wagenknecht); uncle of Helen Allison Winter (who married Carl Winter). Arrested in Cleveland, 1919, on charges of violating the state's criminal syndicalism law; Workers candidate for New York state senate 14th District, 1926; poet. Died in Olympia, Thurston County, Wash., July 18, 1982. Interment at Woodbine Cemetery, Puyallup, Wash.
Hortense Allison Wagenknecht (1887-1975) — also known as Hortense Wagenknecht; Hortense Allison — of Ohio; Connecticut; California. Born in Warsaw, Benton County, Mo., January 14, 1887. Sister of Elmer T. Allison; married 1905 to Alfred Wagenknecht; mother of Helen Allison Winter (who married Carl Winter). Communist. Candidate for Presidential Elector for Connecticut, 1932; candidate for California state assembly 71st District, 1934. Female. Died May 28, 1975. Burial location unknown.
Carl Winter (1906-1991) — of Manhattan, New York County, N.Y.; Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minn.; Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif.; Michigan. Born in 1906. Married to Helen Allison Winter (daughter of Alfred Wagenknecht and Hortense Allison Wagenknecht; niece of Elmer T. Allison). Communist. Candidate for New York state senate 13th District, 1932; candidate for U.S. Senator from Minnesota, 1940; convicted in 1949 under the Smith Act, for conspiring to advocate the overthrow of the government; served five years in prison. Died in 1991. Interment at Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Ill.
Helen Allison Winter (1908-2001) — also known as Helen Winter; Helen Allison Wagenknecht — of Manhattan, New York County, N.Y.; Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minn.; Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif.; Detroit, Wayne County, Mich. Born in Seattle, King County, Wash., February 14, 1908. Daughter of Alfred Wagenknecht and Hortense Allison Wagenknecht; niece of Elmer T. Allison; married to Carl Winter. Communist. Candidate for Michigan state house of representatives from Wayne County 1st District, 1946. Female. Died December 13, 2001. Interment at Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Ill.

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