Herman O. Kent [SEP] position held
Herman O. Kent
Herman O. Kent (April 19, 1884 – ?) was a farmhand, typesetter and trade union activist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin who served two terms as a Socialist member of the Wisconsin State Assembly representing Milwaukee County's 9th Assembly district (the 9th and 10th wards of the City of Milwaukee).
Background.
Kent was born in Germany on April 19, 1884. He came to the town of Ashippun in Dodge County, Wisconsin with his parents, when one month old, living there on
Public office.
He was elected to the Assembly for the 9th district of Milwaukee County (9th ward of the City of Milwaukee) in 1912 (Socialist incumbent Edmund J. Berner was running for the state senate), receiving 1,209 votes against 1,035 for Socialist Herman O. Kent, 459 for Republican Eugene Herman, and 31 for Prohibitionist Frank F. Wolfe. He was assigned to the standing committee on printing.
He does not appear to have run for re-election in 1914. He was succeeded by Kent, who defeated