John A. C. Menton was the first and only Socialist mayor of Flint, Michigan (1911-12). Menton was not only a member of the Socialist Party of America, he was also secretary-treasurer of the Central Labor Council and president of the local cigarmakers union, one of the largest in the city. In 1906 and 1910 he ran unsuccessfully as a Socialist candidate for U.S. Representative from Michigan, 6th District.
Due to a coalition of the Democratic Party, Republican Party, General Motors Corporation and Charles S. Mott in the so-called Independent Citizens Party , Menton was decisively defeated in the 1912 election never to serve again.
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