Eugene V. Debs facts for kids
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Eugene V. Debs
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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 (aged 70) Elmhurst, Illinois, U.S. |
| 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.
Images for kids
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Rogers, Elliott, Keliher, Hogan, Burns, Goodwin and Debs, the seven ARU officers jailed following the loss of the 1894 Pullman Strike
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Campaign poster from his 1912 presidential campaign featuring Debs and vice presidential candidate Emil Seidel
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Debs speaking in Canton, Ohio in 1918, being arrested for sedition shortly thereafter
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Clifford Berryman's cartoon depiction of Debs' 1920 presidential run from prison
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Debs leaving the federal penitentiary in Atlanta on Christmas Day 1921 following commutation of his sentence
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Debs leaving the White House the day after being released from prison in 1921
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Debs sitting with five young socialists in Chicago, with the man on the far right, Louis Eisner, being the father of Stanford University professor Elliot Eisner
