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=Oscar Ameringer=

Oscar Ameringer (August 4, 1870-November 5, 1943) was a German-American Socialist editor, author, and organizer from the late 1890s until his death in 1943. Ameringer made a name for himself in the Oklahoma Socialist Party as the editor of its newspaper and a prominent organizer for the party. Although his ideological position within the party was never well defined, his organized camp meetings in Oklahoma helped the Socialist Party rise to significance in the region and Ameringer himself was almost elected mayor of Oklahoma City in 1911.

Early Life and Immigration
Born in Achstetten, Germany in 1870, Oscar Ameringer came to America at the age of 15. His father, a cabinet maker, had sent young Oscar to join his brother in Cincinnati,Ohio where he tried his hand as a furniture maker and musician. He joined the Knights of Labor in 1886 and the American Federation of Musicians in 1903, but soon found his way into the newspaper industry working for a union newspaper in Columbus, Ohio