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• Emil Seidel became the first socialist mayor of a large American city when he was elected mayor of Milwaukee in 1910.
• Tammy Baldwin of Madison, is the first (and only, so far) openly lesbian U.S. Representative.
• In March of 1854 , protesters meet at a schoolhouse in Ripon to debate the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Ultimately the group would end up creating the Republican Party.
• The state flag of Wisconsin was originally designed in 1863, but was not officially adopted until 1913. The North American Vexillological Association (remember them?) ranks the flag as one of the worst 10 flag designs in North America.
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