1. Louis Kuehnle is considered a pioneer in the growing resort town of Atlantic City, New Jersey, in the late 1880s and the early 1900s.
21 Facts About Louis Kuehnle
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Louis Kuehnle was leader of the Republican organization that controlled Atlantic City in the early 1900s.
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Louis Kuehnle then had his name tarnished by scandal, and he was succeeded by Enoch "Nucky" Johnson as leader of the organization.
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Louis Kuehnle was born in New York City on December 25,1857.
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Louis Kuehnle attended the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, but did not perform academically and dropped out after a year.
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When one of those three politicians died in 1900, Louis Kuehnle took his spot at the meetings and eventually took control of the club itself.
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Louis Kuehnle is credited as the architect and first leader of a partisan political machine in Atlantic City and held great control over the city from the late 1800s until his imprisonment in 1911.
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Louis Kuehnle was responsible for numerous improvements to the city, as he always remembered his goal of transforming Atlantic City into a major US metropolis.
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Louis Kuehnle helped lower electric prices by supporting a competing utility in the area.
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Louis Kuehnle helped build the Boardwalk and even increased the amount of fresh water in town by building a water main from the mainland to Absecon Island.
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Louis Kuehnle was always an entrepreneur in the transportation industry and helped modernize the trolley system to improve intracity transport.
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Louis Kuehnle was looked upon by many citizens of Atlantic City as a leader and protector.
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Louis Kuehnle would devise nonviolent ways to get the state militia to visit and to calm the community whenever a Philadelphia newspaper published an inflammatory article.
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Louis Kuehnle was charitable too and well liked by the African-American community.
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Louis Kuehnle's Republicans increased their level of fraud in the 1910 gubernatorial election campaign so that their candidate would be elected as governor of New Jersey.
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Louis Kuehnle noted that there were more than 3,000 Republican votes identified as fraudulent in Atlantic City.
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The winning bidder subsequently assigned part of the contract to a company in which Louis Kuehnle was a part owner.
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In 1913, Louis Kuehnle was convicted of conflict of interest related corruption and was sentenced to one year of hard labor and a $1,000 fine.
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Louis Kuehnle was elected in 1920 and re-elected every four-year term until his death in 1934.
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Louis Kuehnle served specifically as Commissioner of Parks and Public Property.
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Louis Kuehnle Avenue is the only visible monument dedicated to him in Atlantic City.