Eugene Debs ... president five times, Debs was a reluctant leader. And he knew his campaigns were symbolic. "There was virtually no chance that a Socialist (or any third-party candidate) would ...

The first two viewpoints depend solely on a person's political leanings, but the third was an indisputable ... Days later, Debs was arrested while heading to another party event in Cleveland.

In the election of 1920, Eugene V. Debs, the Socialist Party presidential candidate ... with 60.4% of the popular vote to Cox’s 34.1%. Debs was a distant third, but he had won 3.4% of the electorate – ...

In Sanders’ quaint, low-budget 1979 documentary, Eugene V. Debs—issued by ... question: While our two-party system has rarely made room for long-lasting third parties, it has proven flexible ...

Eugene V. Debs did not speak on election night in 1920. The Socialist presidential contender was, in his words, a “candidate in seclusion,” imprisoned in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary for ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Following his unprecedented felony conviction, former president and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump has to wait to find out what his sentence will be. But even if it ...

Debs campaigning for the presidency before a freight-yard audience in 1912. GRANGER / GRANGER — All rights reserved Eugene Debs had led historic strikes and run for ...

About a century ago, Socialist Party leader Eugene Debs ran for president from prison — and received nearly a million votes, about 3% of the national vote share. Debs’ campaign relished his ...