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'''Eugene Victor Debs''' (1855-1926) was a [[liberal]] [[American]] trade union leader and politician. He founded the [[Industrial Workers of the World]] (the 'wobblies') and was [[Socialist Party of America]] candidate for the presidency of the [[United States]] on five occasions. This was a time in America's history when [[liberal|liberals]] could be imprisoned for their beliefs, so Debs was sentenced ten years in prison and disenfranchisement for life under the [[Espionage Act of 1917]] for his outspoken opposition to [[World War I]]. The Presidential campaign he ran from prison in 1920 gained him the most votes (913,664 votes, or 3.42 % of the votes cast <ref>2001 ''New York Times Almanac'', New York Times, 2000 </ref>) of any socialist party presidential candidate.
'''Eugene Victor Debs''' (1855-1926) was the American leader of the Socialist party. He was [[Socialist Party of America]] candidate for the presidency of the in 1900, 1904, 1908, 1912 and 1920, running best in 1912. He briefly belonged to the [[IWW]], which called for a violent overthrow of capitalism, but drew back from such an extreme position.
Debs, like a majority of socialists, opposed American entry into [[World War I]]. A powerful oratorm he gave speeches during the war to discourge youth from enlisting or acceping the draft. He was convicted of sedition in federal court; the Supreme Court upheld the conviction and he campaigned in 1920 from his prison cell in Atlanta. In 1921 he was pardoned by president [[Warren Harding]].
==See also==
* [[Socialist Party of America]]
==Bibliography==
* Chace, James. ''1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs--The Election that Changed the Country'' (2005), popular history [http://www.amazon.com/1912-Roosevelt-Debs-Election-Changed/dp/0743273559/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1227789396&sr=8-1 excerts and text search]
* Ginger, Ray. ''The Bending Cross: A Biography of Eugene Victor Debs''. (1949)
* Salvatore, Nick. ''Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist''. (1984), the standard scholarly biography
===Primary sources===
* Debs, Eugene. ''Debs: His Life, Writings and Speeches''. 544 pages. (1908) [http://books.google.com/books?id=1X3rXrzI5GgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:eugene+inauthor:debs&lr=&num=30&as_brr=3 complete text online]
* Debs, Eugene. ''Gentle Rebel: Letters of Eugene V. Debs''. Edited by J. Robert Constantine. 312 pages. [[University of Illinois Press]]. June 1, 1995. ISBN 0-252-06324-4.
* Debs, Eugene. ''Walls & Bars: Prisons & Prison Life In The "Land Of The Free"''. 264 pages. Charles H. Kerr Publishers Company; 1st edition, 1983 edition ISBN 0-88286-010-0. 2000 edition ISBN 0-88286-248-0.
* Debs, Eugene V. ''The papers of Eugene V. Debs, 1834-1945: A guide to the microfilm edition''. 163 pages. Microfilming Corporation of America, 1983. ISBN 0-667-00699-0.
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