Education
Blair attended the University of Wisconsin as a Zona Gale scholar.
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Fred Blair
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His family, of French-Canadian heritage, has lived in the state for more than 150 years. He had worked as a sand farmer, in the stone quarries of Red Granite, as a tannery worker, on the railroads, and in many factories. Becoming active in left wing politics, he joined the Communist Party United States of America in 1929 running for governor in 1930, 1932, 1940, 1942, 1966, and 1974.
He also ran for United States. Senator for Wisconsin in the 1938 election.
Blair survived multiple investigations into his activities in the 1940s and 50s and remained as the head of the Communist Party of Wisconsin well into the 1970s. In the Governor"s race in 1974, he received 3,617 votes.
In November 1966, there was an attempt on Blair"s life when a 17-year-old Brookfield Wisconsin youth entered Mary"s Bookshop and tried to shoot Blair with a handgun. Blair was not wounded although a customer in the store was shot during a scuffle with the assailant.
Membership
He had been a member of the Longshoreman"s Union, the Furniture Workers, Railway Clerks, and Paper, Pulp and Sufite Workers Union.
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Nationality
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Political Party
Communist Party United States of America