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Debs ran as a Socialist candidate for President of the United States five times: 1900 (earning 0.6 percent of the popular vote), 1904 (3.0 percent), 1908 (2.8 percent), 1912 (6.0 percent), and 1920 (3.4 percent), the last time from a prison cell.
Jun 1, 2024 · Eugene V. Debs (born November 5, 1855, Terre Haute, Indiana, U.S.—died October 20, 1926, Elmhurst, Illinois) was a labour organizer and Socialist Party candidate for U.S. president five times between 1900 and 1920.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
April 12, 1919 — Debs began serving his sentence in Moundsville, W. Va. State prison and was transferred to Atlanta, Ga. Federal prison two months later. His humility and friendliness and his assistance to all won him the respect and admiration of the most hardened convicts.
Jun 22, 2020 · Eugene Debs was a union leader, a Socialist, and a presidential candidate who ran for office from behind bars.
- Jason Serafino
Feb 11, 2019 · Eugene V. Debs and the Endurance of Socialism. Half man, half myth, Debs turned a radical creed into a deeply American one. By Jill Lepore. February 11, 2019. Debs ran for President five times,...
- Jill Lepore
Debs acted upon his new convictions with resolve, resigning his $4,000 a year post as grand secretary-treasurer of the BLF in 1893 after organizing the American Railway Union (ARU), an industrial union open to all railroad workers regardless of craft or skill.
The Father of American Socialism. Eugene V. Debs was born in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1855 to a family of French Alsatian immigrants. Making his way in the railroad industry, Debs formed the American Railway Union in 1892.
