Norman Thomas
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Norman Mattoon Thomas was an American Presbyterian minister, political activist, and perennial candidate for president. He achieved fame as a socialist and pacifist, and was the Socialist Party of Ame
Thomas in 1937
Front page of The New Leader featuring Thomas as an Aldermanic candidate, October 19, 1927
Norman Thomas and James H. Maurer as candidates for President and Vice President, 1928
Thomas speaking at a STFU meeting in 1937 (by Louise Boyle)
Socialist Party of America
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The Socialist Party of America was a socialist political party in the United States formed in 1901 by a merger between the three-year-old Social Democratic Party of America and disaffected elements of
Norman Thomas
…American Presbyterian minister, political activist, and perennial candidate for president. He achieved fame as a socialist and pacifist, and was the Socialist Party of America's candidate for president in six consecutive elections between 1928 and 1948. Thomas was the oldest of six children, born November 20, 1884, in Marion…
Election poster for Eugene V. Debs, Socialist Party of America candidate for President, 1904
Debs was the founding member of the Socialist Party of America.
Executive Secretary Adolph Germer was one of top five Socialist of America leaders prosecuted by the Department of Justice in 1919.
Alfred Wagenknecht, top leader of the 1919 Left Wing Section of the Socialist Party