Gawronski was the Democratic nominee for the 19th
Milwaukee County State Assembly seat in 1930. He came in a weak third in a four-way race, trailing
Republican Allen Busby and
Socialist Robert Buech. In 1932, he was elected as a delegate to the
Democratic National Convention from
Wisconsin's 4th congressional district, pledged to nominate
Franklin D. Roosevelt for
President; and served as a Roosevelt
presidential elector that fall. He was first elected to the Senate in 1938, polling 12,032 votes to 10,348 for Socialist
Frank Metcalfe (running on the
Progressive ticket as part of an
electoral fusion arrangement) and 9,175 for a Republican named O'Brien. He was a delegate to the
Democratic National Convention in 1940 and an alternate in 1948. ==References==