Charles Burhop

(His parents, Fred and Anna, had immigrated to Sheboygan from their native Hanover earlier that year.)

He was educated in the public schools, and became a cigarmaker, a trade which he followed for 16 years (his older brothers William and Fred owned a cigar factory).

[2] Burhop was a Cigar Makers' International Union delegate to the Wisconsin State Federation of Labor's 19th annual convention, held in La Crosse in July 1911, where he served on the convention's Resolutions Committee along with (inter alia) fellow Socialist Carl Sandburg, a delegate from News-writers Union Local 9 of Milwaukee.

[3] He served four terms on the Sheboygan County Board of Supervisors, representing two different wards.

[4] (The Republican incumbent, ship chandler John J. Koepsell, was not a candidate for re-election.)