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[[Image:Berger.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Victor Berger]]
[[Image:Berger.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Victor Berger]]
'''Victor Luitpold Berger''' (February 28, 1860 – August 7, 1929) was a journalist<ref name=blue>[https://books.google.com/books?id=asFWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA458 The Wisconsin Blue Book]</ref> and a founder of the [[Socialist Labor Party]] in the [[United States]]. He was the first socialist elected to the [[U.S. House of Representatives]], in 1910. [[Socialism]] has never taken root in the United States, except perhaps in certain industries such as [[health care]]. [[Socialism]] is prevalent in western [[Europe]] today.
'''Victor Luitpold Berger''' (February 28, 1860 – July 16, 1929) was a journalist<ref name=blue>[https://books.google.com/books?id=asFWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA458 The Wisconsin Blue Book]</ref> and a founder of the [[Socialist Labor Party]] in the [[United States]]. He was the first socialist elected to the [[U.S. House of Representatives]], in 1910. [[Socialism]] has never taken root in the United States, except perhaps in certain industries such as [[health care]]. [[Socialism]] is prevalent in western [[Europe]] today.
==Early life==
==Early life==
Berger opposed America's entry into [[World War 1]], which made him a target of the [[Wilson administration]].<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B06E6D71538EE32A25753C1A9659C946996D6CF BERGER INDICTED FOR CONSPIRACY; Ex-Congressman and Three Chicago Socialists Accused of Spreading Disloyalty. JURY CITES 26 OVERT ACTS Irwin St. John Tucker, J.L. Engdahl, and William Kruse Codefendants with Berger.]</ref>
Berger opposed America's entry into [[World War 1]], which made him a target of the [[Wilson administration]].<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B06E6D71538EE32A25753C1A9659C946996D6CF BERGER INDICTED FOR CONSPIRACY; Ex-Congressman and Three Chicago Socialists Accused of Spreading Disloyalty. JURY CITES 26 OVERT ACTS Irwin St. John Tucker, J.L. Engdahl, and William Kruse Codefendants with Berger.]</ref>
===Indictment===
===Indictment and prison===
On February 2, 1918, Victor L. Berger, together with Adolph Germer, J. Louis Engdahl, William F. Kruse, and Irwin St. John Tucker, were indicted by the grand Jury in the district court of the United States for the northern district of Illinois for a violation of sections 3 and 4 of title 7 of the espionage act.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=zDs4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA9148 Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the Congress, Volume 58, Part 9]</ref>
On February 2, 1918, Victor L. Berger, together with Adolph Germer, J. Louis Engdahl, William F. Kruse, and Irwin St. John Tucker, were indicted by the grand Jury in the district court of the United States for the northern district of Illinois for a violation of sections 3 and 4 of title 7 of the espionage act.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=zDs4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA9148 Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the Congress, Volume 58, Part 9]</ref>
In 1919, Berger was sentences to 20 years in prison, but the conviction was overturned in 1921.<ref name="Odd">[http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/odd-wisconsin-socialism-was-mainstream-in-wisconsin-years-ago/article_3e5a9ada-ae54-5e4e-9ae4-72515156bfb0.html Odd Wisconsin: Socialism was mainstream in Wisconsin 100 years ago]. ''Wisconsin State Journal'' (by the ''Wiscosnin Historical Society''). Retrieved November 24, 2016.</ref>
==Later life==
Berger was re-elected to Congress, and on July 16, 1929 he was killed in a streetcar accident in Milwaukee.<ref name="Odd"/>
==See also==
==See also==