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	Seattle's Scuffler \| TIME
		Born in Bohemia 35 years ago, Marion Anthony Zioncheck was brought to Seattle as a child, grew up to be a fish peddler.
		Marion Zioncheck began his legal career by being fined $25 for contempt of court after calling a witness a "scab." Later he successfully defended his mother on kidnapping charges.
		By last week Representative Zioncheck had piled up such a record of outlandish behavior both on and off the House floor that even Congressmen who like a little eccentricity to liven the legislative atmosphere had begun to regard him as the Capitol's No. 1 problem child.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,882613,00.html (552 words)

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		Marion A. Zioncheck (5 December 1901 – 7 August 1936), an American politician, served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1933 until his death in 1936.
		Zioncheck was born in Kęty, Poland, and arrived in Seattle, Washington with his parents four years later.
		On August 7, Zioncheck completed his will and a farewell note declaring "My only hope in life was to improve the condition of an unfair economic system that held no promise to those that all the wealth of even a decent chance to survive let alone live.
	portable-apps.subiectiv.com /portable.php?title=Marion_Anthony_Zioncheck (301 words)

	Powell's Books - Zioncheck for President: A True Story of Idealism and Madness in American Politics by Phil Campbell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Zioncheck for President is a memoir of the eighteen weirdest weeks of Phil Campbell's adult life.
		Zioncheck was a radical lefty, a nonsensical prankster, a serious boozer and-in the end-a madman, qualities that can be found in varying degrees in the main characters of the book.
		Zioncheck committed a spectacular public suicide after he realized that he could not change the world (he was only 35, not much older than the main characters).
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=74-1560257504-0 (725 words)

	Works that are two portraits, of writer and subject - The Boston Globe
		Marion Zioncheck might be the most idealistic, ferociously committed, and ultimately dissolute Depression-era congressman you've never heard of.
		Cogswell's aura of purpose is enviable, and ultimately irresistible, to the young alternative-weekly-newspaper reporter; two years later, newly fired from his job at the Stranger, Campbell volunteers to manage the budding politico's bid for city council.
		Introducing each chapter are biographical notes on Zioncheck, a Polish immigrant who grew up in Seattle, was elected to Congress in 1932, and entered the afterlife as Cogswell's personal hero and patron saint of the book.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2005/10/23/works_that_are_two_portraits_of_writer_and_subject (831 words)

	2 Walls Webzine - book review - Skid Road: An Informal Portrait of Seattle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Marion Zioncheck was a University of Washington graduate who was elected to Congress in 1932 at the age of 32.
		A left-wing Democrat, Zioncheck made headlines mostly for extracurricular activities and drunken escapades with his wife Rubeye, whom he married after their first date.
		His antics included taking part in a student riot, throwing coconuts from a hotel window, being evicted from his residence, judging a beauty contest in a nightclub and getting in a fight with one of the loser’s boyfriends after the contest.
	www.2walls.com /Reviews/Books/skid_road.asp (1041 words)

	A Hero's Haunting
		His "Ode to Congressman Marion Zioncheck" is part two of a three-part epic poem on 20th-century Seattle, The Dream of the Cold War.
		Zioncheck for me is about as present in his deeds and his speeches as the Old Testament Jehovah.
		Zioncheck would have objected to light rail on the same grounds he objected to a lot of New Deal programs.
	www.realchangenews.org /pastissuesupgrade/2001_05_03/features/a_heros_haunting.html (2540 words)

	HistoryLink Essay:Congressman Marion Zioncheck commits suicide on August 8, 1936.
		On August 8, 1936, U.S. Representative Marion Zioncheck (age 35) leaps to his death from his 5th-floor office in the Arctic Club building in downtown Seattle.
		Marion Zioncheck was born in 1901 in Poland, and arrived in Seattle with his parents four years later.
		On August 8, 1936, Zioncheck completed his will and a farewell note declaring "My only hope in life was to improve the conditions of an unfair economic system." He then leapt from the window of his office on the 5th floor of the Arctic Club Building at 3rd Avenue and Cherry Street in downtown Seattle.
	www.historylink.org /essays/printer_friendly/index.cfm?file_id=5528 (372 words)

	Reviews by Mark Lindquist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		U.S. Rep. Marion Zioncheck was an alcoholic manic-depressive who killed himself in 1936 by jumping out of his office window in downtown Seattle, head first.
		Zioncheck became a footnote — and Maggie became a Washington state legend.
		His candidate, Grant Cogswell, is a failed writer and moody recovering alcoholic with migraine headaches who idolizes Zioncheck, looks like Charlie Brown, and believes the FBI is tapping his phone.
	www.marklindquist.net /zioncheck.html (360 words)

	Maud Newton: Blog
		I’ve said it before, but my friend Phil Campbell’s Zioncheck for President: A True Story of Idealism and Madness in American Politics is a blunt, hilarious assessment of an idealistic and ultimately ill-fated city council bid he managed.
		Elected to Congress the same year FDR was elected President, Zioncheck was a legendary boozer, a terrible driver, and a relentlessly idealistic politician.
		The halo of light bulbs intimates both hope and idealism; the one burnt-out bulb alludes to Marion Zioncheck’s failed mental faculties in 1936.
	maudnewton.com /blog/?p=5854 (2601 words)

	Amazon.com: Zioncheck for President: A True Story of Idealism and Madness in American Politics: Books: Phillip Campbell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Zioncheck is a frantic political-coming-of-age tale: a West Coast cousin to Michael Chabon's The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, with all of the latter's suspense and angst but with none of its gangsters or sex.
		The account of Marion Zioncheck's rise and fall - presented, for the most part, in brief vignettes which preface each chapter - is particularly well-written and does a good job of contrasting the author's claustrophobic, first-person view of local politics with the sort of dramatic, polished political biography that comes with years of hindsight.
		Zioncheck for President is an eccentric memoir that takes a grassroots, leftist political campaign and turns it into a political romp anybody can enjoy (Mo Rocca's cover blurb isn't wrong!).
	www.amazon.com /Zioncheck-President-Idealism-American-Politics/dp/1560257504 (1547 words)

	The Seattle Times: Search Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		U.S. Rep. Marion Zioncheck was an alcoholic manic-depressive who killed himself in 1936 by jumping out of his office window in downtown Seattle, head first.
		Zioncheck became a footnote — and Maggie became a Washington state legend.
		His candidate, Grant Cogswell, is a failed writer and moody recovering alcoholic with migraine headaches who idolizes Zioncheck, looks like Charlie Brown, and believes the FBI is tapping his phone.
	archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com /cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=zioncheck04&date=20051202 (391 words)

	Seattlest: Seattlest Interview: Phil Campbell, Author of Zioncheck For President
		It's called Zioncheck For President: A True Story of Idealism and Madness in American Politics.
		While we were reading it we alternately wanted to go on a molotov cocktail bender, discourage everyone we know from ever running for any kind of public office anywhere (including class treasurer), drive off a bridge, and convince a friend that a run for city council would be a good idea.
		Plus there was Grant Cogswell's obsession with Marion Zioncheck, the only US Congressman ever sent to an insane asylum.
	www.seattlest.com /archives/2005/10/11/seattlest_interview_phil_campbell_author_of_zioncheck_for_president.php (2042 words)

	Amazon.de: Zioncheck for President: A True Story of Idealism and Madness in American Politics: English Books: Phil ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Zioncheck for President: A True Story of Idealism and Madness in American Politics (Taschenbuch)
		Campbell's account of Cogswell's odd-but-true campaign takes its title from the efforts of hard-drinking Depression-era Congressman Marion Zioncheck to expand FDR's New Deal.
		He called a press conference (which no one attended) to announce that he was running against Richard McIver, "hardly the apex of evil.
	amazon.de /Zioncheck-President-Idealism-American-Politics/dp/1560257504 (584 words)

	Zioncheck for President: A True Story of Idealism and Madness in American Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This offbeat true story is a comedy and a tragedy about politics, from anti-globalist protest to domestic turmoil.
		For eighteen weeks, Phil devotes himself to Grant's grassroots challengeand#151;all the while fending an overzealous roommate challenging him for his position as manager of their shared house.
		As Grant's campaign unfolds, so does the story of Zioncheck's tragedy and#151; his rise and fall from an energetic young politico to a madman who is sent to the insane asylum.
	webservices.amazon.com /onca/xml?Service=AWSECommerceService&SubscriptionId=0S2SJ5E66G1PJC6X8AG2&Operation=ItemLookup&IdType=ASIN&ItemId=1560257504&ResponseGroup=Medium,OfferFull (245 words)

	The Blog \| Michael Schaub: Vote Zioncheck for President \| The Huffington Post
		Phil Campbell's excellent new book, Zioncheck for President: A True Story of Idealism and Madness in American Politics, tells the story of two of them: maverick US Representative Marion Anthony Zioncheck, who committed suicide in 1936, and writer and activist Grant Cogswell, who ran a grassroots, DIY campaign for Seattle City Council in 2001.
		Campbell, a former reporter for the Seattle alternative newsweekly The Stranger, was Cogswell's campaign manager, organizing volunteers and wrangling with the media from their de facto headquarters in a neighborhood coffee shop.
		Zioncheck for President tells the story of Cogswell's insurgent candidacy -- it's the rare political book that's both genuinely sad and funny -- intertwined with a short narrative about Zioncheck's life and career.
	huffingtonpost.com /michael-schaub/vote-zioncheck-for-pre_b_9445.html (482 words)

	Turbulent years churned out lasting leaders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Warren G. Magnuson learned that Seattle's brilliant but flawed populist, Congressman Marion Zioncheck, had thrown himself out of a sixth-floor window of the Arctic Building and lay dead on Third Avenue.
		The fallen Zioncheck was a casualty of the times.
		Zioncheck, the son of Polish immigrants, had championed civil liberties, labor rights and public power.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /century/life19.shtml (978 words)

	The Blog \| Michael Schaub: Vote Zioncheck for President \| The Huffington Post
		Phil Campbell's excellent new book, Zioncheck for President: A True Story of Idealism and Madness in American Politics, tells the story of two of them: maverick US Representative Marion Anthony Zioncheck, who committed suicide in 1936, and writer and activist Grant Cogswell, who ran a grassroots, DIY campaign for Seattle City Council in 2001.
		Campbell, a former reporter for the Seattle alternative newsweekly The Stranger, was Cogswell's campaign manager, organizing volunteers and wrangling with the media from their de facto headquarters in a neighborhood coffee shop.
		Zioncheck for President tells the story of Cogswell's insurgent candidacy -- it's the rare political book that's both genuinely sad and funny -- intertwined with a short narrative about Zioncheck's life and career.
	www.huffingtonpost.com /michael-schaub/vote-zioncheck-for-pre_b_9445.html (519 words)

	ENCYCLOPEDIA HANASIANA: For Your Consideration
		This last adventure is chronicled in Phil’s new memoir, Zioncheck for President: A True Story of Idealism and Madness in American Politics, due out Oct. 10 from Nation Books.
		Named for Marion Zioncheck, a leftist Seattle pol who committed suicide in 1936, the book is a novelistic, funny, and deeply personal narrative of Phil’s involvement in the Cogswell campaign.
		We should all be so lucky as to have something this honest and compelling to write about.
	www.hanasiana.com /archives/000630.html (280 words)

	Marion A. Zioncheck (1900 - 1936) - Find A Grave Memorial
		Marion A. Zioncheck (1900 - 1936) - Find A Grave Memorial
		A hard-working and idealistic new Dealer, Marion Zioncheck began acting erratically in early 1936.
		The vacancy created by Zioncheck's sudden death opened the door for Warren G. Magnuson's long Congressional career.
	www.findagrave.com /cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10777 (118 words)

	The Stranger Forums - Gas Tax Repeal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		And here I was, Marion, thinking that we had put the debate to rest and let bygones be bygones.
		Some organizations don't know how to take a step back and go, "Hey, are we sure we're doing the right thing?" Many charge forward without a second thought as to the societal drawbacks of getting what they want, and I'm seeing that here with the gax tax repeal and the PWC's no-viaduct movement.
		I'm not an advocate of a tunnel or a giant bridge that swallows the skyline, or anything other than not eliminating a major highway without making a sufficient effort to compensate for the loss of said highway.
	www.thestranger.com /forums/showthread.php?t=509&page=2&pp=25 (1897 words)

	Amazon.ca: Zioncheck for President: A True Story of Idealism and Madness in American Politics: Books: Phillip Campbell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Amazon.ca: Zioncheck for President: A True Story of Idealism and Madness in American Politics: Books: Phillip Campbell
		Publisher: learn how customers can search inside this book.
		Zioncheck for President: A True Story of Idealism and Madness in American Politics (Paperback)
	amazon.ca /Zioncheck-President-Idealism-American-Politics/dp/1560257504 (547 words)

	Lights, Camera, Action! :: The Memphis Flyer :: the mid-south's news weekly :: Jackson Baker :: Politics
		I've often parroted this line myself, but not until I read Zioncheck for President: A True Story of Idealism and Madness in American Politics (Nation Books), a new work by my old Flyer colleague Phil Campbell, did I realize exactly, and in how many unexpected ways, that statement is true.
		In other words, everything is life-or-death all the time -- for Campbell, for his candidate, for the apparently disturbed housemate who tinkers ominously with a Glock pistol, and for the prominent Seattle personages, living and dead, whose destinies keep cropping up.
		Most notable of all is the case of the late crazed congressman Marion Zioncheck himself, whose compelling personal history is interspersed throughout the narrative in the manner of those historical anecdotes Hemingway used as chapter-dividers in his short-story volumes.
	www.memphisflyer.com /memphis/PrintFriendly?oid=10594 (1241 words)

	Nation Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		As Grant's campaign unfolds, so does the tale of US representative Marion Anthony Zioncheck's 1930s odyssey from energetic young politico to a madman who gets sent to the insane asylum.
		Is Zioncheck's story a lesson already learned or a prophecy waiting to be repeated?
		Phil Campbell is a freelance writer based in New York City and a former staff writer with the Stranger, Seattle's alternative paper.
	www.nationbooks.org /book.mhtml?t=pcampbell (191 words)

	Find in a Library: Zioncheck for president : a true story of idealism and madness in American politics
		Find in a Library: Zioncheck for president : a true story of idealism and madness in American politics
		Zioncheck for president : a true story of idealism and madness in American politics
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	worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/bcf552d054b3de0ca19afeb4da09e526.html (108 words)

	Marion A. Zioncheck Information Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Marion was born in Kety, Poland in 1900.
		He rose to become what the media termed was the loudest
		separated Zioncheck apart from his peers and would gain
	geocities.com /ZIONCHECKUSA/page2.html (109 words)

	Edward Champion’s Return of the Reluctant » 75 Books, Books #2-3
		Book #3 was Phil Campbell’s Zioncheck for President.
		Campbell himself is involved as Cogswell’s campaign manager (along with attempting to manage an apartment building, which quickly falls by the wayside while the Cogswell campaign hits full gear as a crazed tenant named Doug takes over).
		Further, Campbell contrasts Cogswell’s campaign with one Marion Anthony Zioncheck, a 1930s idealist who served in Congress and eventually went insane.
	www.edrants.com /?p=2550 (807 words)

	Belltown Messenger - Grant's Broiler
		The surreal quality of reading a book that has your own name two or three times on every page aside, no one else has examined our place and time in such detail, and it's well worth a read if only for that.
		Plus I'm funnier in it than I am in real life, and Marion Zioncheck's story is one of this city's more profound legends.
		Speaking of my former political incarnation, the torch has been passed to 29-year-old ass-kicker Christian Gloddy, who, tired of all the stupid, selfish, hysterical monorail opponents, started an organization called Seattle 2045 (for people who will still be alive then) to fight for our monorail (again).
	www.belltownmessenger.com /092005/092005-grant.html (982 words)

	Guide to the John F. Miller Papers 1889-1938
		Defeated for election in 1930 largely due to his support for enforcement of Prohibition, Miller tried for a comeback in 1932.
		Although he defeated his successor, the lackluster Ralph Horr, in the primary, he was a victim of the Democratic landslide in 1932, losing to Marion Zioncheck.
		He resumed the practice of law and died in Seattle in 1936.
	nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu /findaid/ark:/80444/xv37288 (562 words)

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