Seymour Stedman

Seymour Stedman (b 1871) was a Socialist Congressman from Ohio. In 1919, when a coalition of his party and the Republican Party won control of the US House of Representatives, Stedman was elected Speaker of the House, the first Socialist to hold that office and the first non-Democrat since 1882. He supported reducing military spending and advocating for the rights of black people in the Confederate States, and opposed the special relationship between the US and Quebec.