Eugene Debs

Eugene Victor Debs was a Indiana Senator workers activist leftist socialist and Senator from Indiana from 1904 to 1910 and a 3 time Socialist party presidential cannidate running against the right wing democrat Clifton Carl allthough Debs won many states he lost by large margins. He was jailed for 2 years due to his anti canadian war activism and anti great war actvisim to but was relsed 2 years making him the only senator to serve from prison in 1920 Debs backed Theodore Roosevelt for president and did not run he died in 1928 and served as Secretary of Labor under Teddy Roosevelt even was at first nominated for Secruitary of state however Debs did not want this position instead chosing secretary of labor to help the labor movement and help introduce and pressure Teddy to introduce and have many Progressive labor bills such as cutting the hour of work much larger pensions and tons of workers safty bills. He is a hero to many leftist socialists such as Floria Greenburg and Eddy Skipper.