Joseph D. Cannon was an American union organizer and politician from New York.During the summer of 1910 he met and married Laura Gregg Cannon, a lecturer and organizer in the women's suffrage movement.[3] Cannon was an organizer for the Metal Workers' Union in New York.During the party split of 1919, Cannon was a supporter of the Regular faction of National Executive Secretary Adolph Germer and NEC members James Oneal and Morris Hillquit.This article about a politician from the state of New York is a stub.