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Eugene V. Debs
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![]() Debs in 1897
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Member of the Indiana Senate from the 8th district |
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In office 1885–1889 |
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Eugene Victor Debs
November 5, 1855 Terre Haute, Indiana, U.S. |
Died | October 20, 1926 Elmhurst, Illinois, U.S. |
(aged 70)
Political party | Socialist |
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Social Democratic Democratic |
Spouse(s) | Kate Metzel (m. 1885) |
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Eugene Victor "Gene" Debs (November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926) was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies), and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. Through his presidential candidacies, as well as his work with labor movements, Debs eventually became one of the best-known socialists living in the United States.
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Debs while in prison in Woodstock, Illinois, in 1895.
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Debs with Max Eastman and Rose Pastor Stokes in 1918
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Debs leaving the federal penitentiary in Atlanta on Christmas Day 1921 following commutation of his sentence
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