Daniel Hoan

Daniel Hoan
32nd Mayor of Milwaukee
In office
1916–1940
Preceded byGerhard Adolph Bading
Succeeded byCarl Zeidler
4th President of the United States Conference of Mayors
In office
1934–1935
Preceded byT. Semmes Walmsley
Succeeded byFiorello La Guardia
Milwaukee City Attorney
In office
1910–1916
Personal details
Born
Daniel Webster Hoan

(1881-03-12)March 12, 1881
Waukesha, Wisconsin, U.S.
DiedJune 11, 1961(1961-06-11) (aged 80)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
Political partySocialist (until 1940)
Democratic (to 1961)
Spouses
  • Agnes Bernice Magner
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    (m. 1909; died 1941)​
  • Gladys Arthur Townsend
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    (m. 1944; died 1952)​
Children2
ProfessionLabor attorney

Daniel Webster Hoan (March 12, 1881 – June 11, 1961) was an American politician who served as the 32nd Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin from 1916 to 1940. A lawyer who had served as Milwaukee City Attorney from 1910 to 1916, Hoan was a prominent figure in Socialist politics and Milwaukee's second Socialist mayor. His 24-year administration remains the longest continuous Socialist administration in United States history. A panel of 69 scholars in 1993 ranked him among the ten best mayors in American history.[1]

  1. ^ Melvin G. Holli, The American Mayor: The Best and the Worst Big-City Leaders (Pennsylvania State UP, 1999), p. 4–11.