St. Vincent de Paul Church (Milwaukee)

In 1888 the church was completed and dedicated by Archbishop Michael Heiss to St. Vincent de Paul.

The first priest to serve the parish was Father Vincent Lewandowski, who had been ordained into the priesthood in the Duchy of Poznań in 1864.

A somewhat cross and irritable man, Father Lewandowski resigned from the parish in a fit of anger in 1899, and died of a heart attack the following year while riding in a streetcar.

John C. Kleczka, who was the first Polish-American elected to Congress, and later Clement J. Zablocki, who served Wisconsin's fourth district for 35 consecutive years.

1912), including Frank E. Gregorski, Judge, District Court, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, 1953–1960.