Louis Schwartz

[2] His father was a shoemaker, and Schwartz followed him into that business before taking classes to earn his real estate license.

[1] While there he worked for reform of the state's Blue Laws, bringing Sunday baseball and movies to Pennsylvania for the first time.

[2] In 1935, he announced plans to run for Mayor of Philadelphia, but ultimately decided on a city council seat instead.

Schwartz ran for one of the new at-large seats on the council and won the most votes of any of the candidates in the Republican primary that year.

[7] Schwartz stepped down as ward leader in 1957, part of a breach with party leadership over the selection of candidates for magistrate in the election that year.