Debs, Eugene V. (1855-1926)
Eugene Victor Debs, labor leader and five-time Socialist candidate for President, was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, on November 5, 1855. Working on the railroads since he w...
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Eugene Victor Debs
Born November 5, 1855 (Terre Haute, Indiana)
Died October 20, 1926 (Elmhurst, Illinois)
Labor activist
Presidential candidate
By the late nineteenth century the industrial workforce...
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Eugene Victor Debs (1855-1926), a leading American union organizer and, after 1896, a prominent Socialist, ran five times as the Socialist party nominee for president.Eugene V. Debs was born on Nov. 5...
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Eugene V. Debs was the most prominent spokesperson for socialism ever to emerge in the United States. He rose from the ranks of labor to run for president of the United States five times under the ban...
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Today is Thursday, March 1, the 60th day of 2007. There are 305 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On March 1, 1932, Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of Charles and An...
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Witty best-selling author and columnist Molly Ivins, a Texas liberal who died after a long battle with breast cancer, left legions of admirers, even among the politicians she regularly skewered.Pre...
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Not to worry, comrade: Bernie Sanders isn't giving up the people's fight. Capitol Hill's cranky socialist _ "the skunk at the garden party" _ is just rabble-rousing in a nicer neighborhood now.For ...
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