Theodore Debs
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Theodore Debs was an American socialist and political activist. Debs is best remembered as the personal secretary and political confidant of his older brother, socialist orator and journalist Eugene V
Theodore began his working career as an office assistant helping with the production of Locomotive Firemen's Magazine, a monthly edited by his brother.
Theodore Debs (left) taking dictation from his brother Eugene V. Debs aboard the 1908 Red Special campaign train.
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
Theodore Debs
…secretary of the Social Democratic Party of America with headquarters in Chicago from its foundation in 1898 until its dissolution through merger into the Socialist Party of America in August 1901. Theodore Debs was born August 20, 1864, in Terre Haute, Indiana…
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