Gabriel Zophy

He came to the United States with his parents in 1870 to Juda, Wisconsin (in Green County), where he attended the public schools in winter and worked on farms in the summer.

In 1885 he moved to Milwaukee where he learned the trade of carpentry, worked as a journeyman until 1894, when he engaged in the business of contracting and building which he since followed.

He located In West Allis in 1901 before its incorporation as a village and took an active interest In public affairs.

[3] He was a member of the state Central Committee of the Social Democratic Party (as the party was still known in Wisconsin) from West Allis in 1910 when he was elected to the Senate (replacing Republican George E. Page) with 4,344 votes, to 3,864 for Republican George G. Brew (nominally a Progressive, but suspected of stalwart tendencies)[4] and 3374 for Democrat Benjamin Steinel, and was assigned to the Senate's standing committee on State Affairs.

[5] He was succeeded in the 1914 election by fellow Socialist Louis A. Arnold (with whom he later served on the board of directors of the Commonwealth Mutual Savings Bank,[2] a Socialist-led institution, along with Charles B. Whitnall).