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 No Zeidler political machine carried any clout once he was out of 
 office; no alliance or bond melded Zeidler and the powerful in the 
 city's public and private circles. The man who had been elected mayor 
 three times often found only a handful of people listening to what he 
 had to say, and almost none of that handful had any power. 
  
 Zeidler and Maier were actively antagonistic at many points, and 
 Zeidler never set foot in the mayor's office from the day he left 
 office in 1960 until the day John O. Norquist was inaugurated in 1988. 
  
 Zeidler was undeterred by the fact that his stands were often lonely. 
 To him, politics was never just about winning; it was about principle 
 and issues. 
  
 "This was not someone who said, 'Look at me,' " historian Gurda said. 
 "This was someone who was being a citizen." 
  
 In 1976, he was the presidential candidate of the Socialist Party 
 USA., winning 5,427 votes. 
  
 Zeidler continued to live modestly, act modestly and stand actively by 
 his beliefs. He was sought increasingly as a sage on city history. His 
 undisputed personal integrity and the longevity that made him a living 
 invocation of Milwaukee's past were keys to what appeared to be a 
 revival of affection and respect for him in recent years. 
  
 Zeidler became such a local institution that instead of just receiving 
 awards, an award was named after him. In 1985, the Greater Milwaukee 
 Conference on Religion and Urban Affairs began awarding a Frank 
 Zeidler Award for contributions to social concerns in the religious 
 community. James Groppi was the first winner. 
  
 In 1995, the city government office building immediately east of City 
 Hall was named the Frank Zeidler Municipal Building. 
  
 Zeidler is survived by his wife, the former Agnes Reinke, whom he 
 married in 1939. The couple had six children. 
  
 Michael Zeidler, a Milwaukee Public Schools math teacher, lives in 
 Riverwest. He said three of his sisters - Mill Road branch librarian 
 Dorothy Zeidler; Anita Zeidler, a professor of educational psychology 
 at UW-Milwaukee, and Clara A. Scolare - were living with their 
 parents. He said his sister Mary Zeidler works in theater in New York 
 City and his sister Jeanne Zeidler-Craypol, is mayor of Williamsburg, 
 Va. 
  
 Zeidler was asked in a 1975 interview with the Bugle-American, an 
 alternative paper at that time, what he would write for his epitaph. 
  
 He answered, "About all I could say is: 'He tried hard.' " 
  
 [Tom Tolan and Tom Kertscher of the Journal Sentinel staff contributed 
 to this report.] 
  
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