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 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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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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