Jack Charles Bergen (January 17, 1907 December 22, 1992)"Jack Charles Bergen". Find a Grave. Retrieved April 20, 2021."Connecticut Death Index, 1949–2001". FamilySearch. Retrieved April 20, 2021.Staff (June 15, 1935). "Jack Bergen Wed to Ethel Arkin". The New Leader. p. 1. Retrieved April 20, 2021. was an American politician based in Bridgeport, Connecticut. An active Socialist Party of America member (secretary of the local branch), he was elected to the city school board and in 1934 was elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives as part of the Socialist sweep of local elections under Mayor Jasper McLevy, while working as a Federal Emergency Relief Administration supervisor.Bucki Cecelia. Bridgeport's Socialist New Deal, 1915–36. University of Illinois Press, 2001 pp. 172–175, 236–237 and passim. He later broke with McLevy over the latter's decision to bolt the SP and join the Social Democratic Federation.
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