Anthony J. King, Milwaukee labor leader, socialist, and public servant, was born in Random Lake, Wisconsin, December 29, 1894. He left school at the age of fourteen to become an apprentice steamfitter in Milwaukee. In 1928, he was elected secretary-treasurer of the Plumbers and Gasfitters Union, Local #75, A.F.L. In 1942, he was appointed as the business agent for this same union local.
During the 1930s Mr. King was active in the affairs of the Socialist party in Milwaukee and became a candidate on the Socialist ticket for offices in the municipal and county governments. Other positions held by Mr. King included membership on the National War Labor Board, Sixth Region, 1943-1945; membership on the Milwaukee Board of School Directors, 1951-1957; and as an appointed member of the Milwaukee Public Museum's Board of School Directors, 1961-1965.
Mr. King died in November, 1965, and was survived by his wife, two married daughters, and one son, Gordon.
