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Chicago City Council in April 1910, running in Ward 20 as part of a slate of 35 Socialist candidates. Only 324 votes were recorded for Rodriguez in this inaugural effort.
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magazine, vol. 30, no. 11 (November 1981), pp. 144–147.
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William E. Rodriguez died in 1970 in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Socialist Party of America politicians from Illinois
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University of Illinois Chicago School of Law alumni
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71:who worked as a laborer and his mother, of ethnic
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67:on September 15, 1879. His father, Emilio, was a
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283:"Socialists in Slight Gain in Chicago Poll,"
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