Henry Carl Schadeberg (October 12, 1913 – December 11, 1985) was an American protestant minister and Republican politician from southeast Wisconsin.

[5] In the fall of 1943, he enlisted in the United States Navy to serve as a chaplain in World War II, and was commissioned as a lieutenant junior grade.

[6][7] He was initially assigned to chaplain to a group of African American sailors managing a naval ammunition depot in Virginia.

[8][9] After the war, he began preaching at historic Plymouth Congregational Church in Burlington, Wisconsin, and became chaplain of the local American Legion post.

He was formally installed as pastor of Plymouth Church in the Fall of 1946[10] and also continued reserve duties as chaplain for the Burlington Civil Air Patrol.

He spoke against racial prejudice that he had encountered through his service in Virginia,[12] and framed the Cold War competition as a moral crusade.

[14] After re-training, he was assigned as senior chaplain at United States Naval Training Center Bainbridge, in Maryland, where he was promoted to lieutenant commander.

In 1957, he was appointed chairman of the local committee to direct community efforts to integrate the staff and personnel of the planned R.I. Bong Air Force Base into Burlington society.

Later in 1957, he was elected moderator of the Milwaukee Association of Congregational Ministers,[17] and the next year became president of the Burlington chapter of Rotary International.

[18] In the Fall of 1959, Schadeberg announced he would run for Congress, seeking the Republican Party nomination to challenge incumbent Democrat Gerald T. Flynn in Wisconsin's 1st congressional district.

[21][22] In the general election, Schadeberg asserted his belief in small government and attacked the welfare state as "creeping socialism".

Stalbaum, running as a moderate, attacked Schadeberg for blanket opposition to most of the agenda of presidents Kennedy and Johnson, and often attempted to link him to the Republican presidential nominee that year, Arizona U.S. senator Barry Goldwater.

[42][43] Schadeberg received early support from Republican House minority leader Gerald Ford, and began attacking congressional Democrats for increased spending, "rubber stamping" Johnson's agenda, and mishandling of the Vietnam War.

[45] Following the death of Martin Luther King Jr., Schadeberg infamously blamed urban rioting on foreign communist infiltration.

Yale-educated economics professor Les Aspin emerged as his general election opponent, after narrowly defeating environmentalist Doug La Follette and former congressman Gerald Flynn in the Democratic primary.

Senator William Proxmire, as an aide to the Council of Economic Advisers under Kennedy, and as an appointee in the Department of Defense under Johnson.

[51] After leaving Congress, Schadeberg worked as a pastor for five years in Greenville, Michigan, before retiring to a farm in Rockbridge Baths, Virginia.