Eugene V. Debs
5 November 1855 – 20 October 1926
Eugene V. Debs was an American labor leader and socialist who helped found the American Railway Union and the Industrial Workers of the World. He ran for President of the United States five times as the candidate of the Socialist Party of America, and was imprisoned for his opposition to World War I.
Lived at the same time
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Life events
Eugene Victor Debs was born to Alsatian immigrant parents in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgDebs left school to work as a locomotive fireman on the Indianapolis railroad.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgDebs served a term in the Indiana General Assembly as a Democrat.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgDebs organized one of the first industrial unions in the United States.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgDebs directed the nationwide Pullman boycott and was imprisoned for contempt of a federal injunction.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgDebs became a founding leader of the Socialist Party of America.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgDebs was among the founders of the radical labor union known as the Wobblies.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgDebs won about six percent of the vote, his highest share, in the 1912 presidential election.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgDebs was sentenced to ten years for a speech opposing World War I and ran for president from prison in 1920.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgDebs died at a sanitarium in Elmhurst, Illinois, at age 70.
Source: en.wikipedia.org