Biographical note

Paul Francis Stuckenschneider was born in West Point, Nebraska, in 1934. He moved with his family to a farm in Missouri, and in 1941, they moved to to St. Louis. When Stuckenschneider was 17, he began working as a sheet metal cutter at Hussmann Corporation in St. Louis. He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, then returned to the factory and became involved in Sheet Metal Workers International Local 93. From 1956 to 1962, he was a shop steward, then business representative for the local from 1962 to 1967. He then worked as a mediator for the Federal Mediation Service for three years. From 1970 to 1978, he worked for the Sheet Metal Workers International Association, first as assistant director of organization and then as research director. He was then rehired as a mediator for the FMS, assigned to Portland, Oregon. He returned to D.C. in 1990, and became assistant director of the Federal Mediation Service. In 1994, he accepted a demotion to commissioner in order to return to Portland. In 1996, he became president of the mediators union, and served until he retired in 2004. After his retirement, he continued to work as a self-employed mediator for labor disputes.

In 1956, he married Gail M. Huber, and they later had seven children. They divorced in 1994.

Sources: Vital records on Ancestry.com; information provided by Stuckenschneider in his interview; Stuckenschneider’s curriculum vitae (provided to the Oregon Historical Society Research Library); Paul F. Stuckenschneider interview conducted by Deborah Fant, 2013-01-17 (part of Washington State Workers: Archie Green Fellows Project, 2012-2013 (AFC 2012/032), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress), https://www.loc.gov/item/2020655509/.

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