Joseph J. Hirsch

He came to Milwaukee at the age of fifteen, finding work as a furniture salesman at Gimbel's.

Hirsch was elected to the Senate for the 6th District (6th, 7th, 9th and 10th wards of the City of Milwaukee) in 1920, to succeed fellow Socialist W. C. Zumach (who was not a candidate for re-election).

[2] He was elected unopposed, receiving all but three of the 8,828 votes cast; and was assigned to the standing committee on corporations.

[5] In 1923, Hirsch he took a job with the City of Milwaukee's annexation department, and worked there until his 1953 retirement.

He died June 11, 1960, of a heart attack while attending a charity event at the Pfister Hotel.