{{Short description|American socialist politician (circa 1866–1936)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = James P. Sheehan | image = James P. Sheehan 1924.jpg | image_size = | caption = Sheehan {{circa}} 1924 | office1 = Chairman of the<br />Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors | term_start1 = 1910 | term_end1 = 1912 | predecessor1 = | successor1 = | office2 = Member of the<br />Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors | term_start2 = 1914 | term_end2 = 1936 | predecessor2 = | successor2 = | term_start3 = 1908 | term_end3 = 1912 | predecessor3 = | successor3 = | term_start4 = 1904 | term_end4 = 1906 | predecessor4 = | successor4 = | birth_date = {{birth date|1866|03|12}} | birth_place = Lockport, New York, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1936|11|26|1866|03|12}} | death_place = Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. | party = Socialist | occupation = Cigar maker | spouse = {{marriage|Lena|1888|1934|end=died}} | children = 3 }} '''James Patrick Sheehan'''<ref>{{cite web |author=<!-- not stated --> |date= |title=Sheehan, James Patrick 1866 - 1936 |url=https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS12905 |website=wisconsinhistory.org |location=Madison |publisher=Wisconsin Historical Society |access-date=9 February 2025}}</ref> (March 12, 1866 &ndash; November 26, 1936)<ref name=veteran>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=27 November 1936|title=Sheehan, Veteran Labor Leader Dies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/596186480/?match=1&terms=%22James%20P.%20Sheehan%22 |work=Kenosha News |location=Kenosha |access-date=4 February 2025}}</ref> was an American cigar maker, labor leader and politician who served several terms on the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors and was its chairman from 1910 to 1912.<ref>{{cite book |author=<!-- not stated --> |date=1916 |title=Voters' League Seventh Biennial Final Report |url=https://archive.org/details/votersleaguebien1916vote/page/12/mode/1up |location=Milwaukee |publisher=Voters' League |page=12 |isbn= |access-date=4 February 2025}}</ref> He was the Socialist candidate for Congress in Wisconsin's 5th district in 1930 and for Senate in 1934.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=26334 |title=Sheehan, James P. |last= |first= |date=2019 |website=ourcampaigns.com |publisher= |access-date=4 February 2025 |quote=}}</ref>

Outside of electoral politics, Sheehan was general organizer for the Milwaukee Federated Trades Council, a vice president of the Cigar Makers' International Union,<ref name=veteran/> and a member of the executive board of the Wisconsin State Federation of Labor.<ref>{{cite book |title=Proceedings of the Twenty-sixth Annual Convention of the Wisconsin State Federation of Labor |date=1918 |publisher=Wisconsin State Federation of Labor |location=Racine |page=2 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112042996972&seq=8 |access-date=3 May 2025}}</ref>

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==External links== *[https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=26334 Our Campaigns - Sheehan, James P.]

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