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Upshaw, William D. (1866-1952)
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1952 Nov 27 p. 3
Birth date: 1866
text of obituary:
DEATH TAKES PROHIBITION, LABOR LEADERS
Three leaders who figured prominently in national affairs in the past 20 years have been taken by death.
Wm. D. Upshaw, 86, former congressman and noted prohibitionist, died at Glendale, Calif., Nov. 21. Wm. Green, 79, president of the American Federation of Labor since 1924, died on the same day at his home in Conshocton [sic Coshocton], Ohio. Phillip Murray, head of the rival CIO union, died Nov. 9, at San Francisco of heart attack. Both Green and Murray rose from the ranks of common workmen to the top executive positions in the two most powerful labor organizations in the world.