Polakowski, Walter
Civic leader. Born in Buffalo. N. Y. January 18, 1888. At 18 represented the upholsterers' union in the Federated Trades Council of Milwaukee. Now president of the Associated Buyers Corporation of Milwaukee and a member of the Board of Directors of the Cooperative Clothes Shop, Milwaukee. In 1922 elected member of the State Senate in Wisconsin. Socialist candidate for congress in the fourth congressional district in 1928; was re-elected to the state senate in 1930. Residence: 918 Sixth Avenue, Milwaukee, Wis.From: "Who's Who in Polish America" by Rev. Francis Bolek, Editor-in-Chief; Harbinger House, New York, 1943