Question

Who is Eugene Debs?

A.
the first commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission
B.
the Socialist candidate in the 1912 presidential election
C.
the senator who proposed the Eighteenth Amendment
D.
the vice president during the Taft administration

Answer 1

Explanation:

Eugene Victor "Gene" Debs (November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926) was an American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) ("Wobblies") and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States.

Answer 2

Eugene Debs was the Socialist candidate in the 1912 presidential election.

• He was also a socialist presidential candidate for the years 1904, 1908, 1912, and 1920. He would receive increasing numbers of popular votes as the years went by but would never win any votes in the Electoral College.
• Debs believed in the idea that socialism could fix so many problems and capitalism was to war, and that the idea that you should die in war as a patriotic duty was taught to them.
• He is also remembered as a trade unionist, the founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World, the Socialist Party of America, and the American Railway Union.
• He died on 20 October 1926.

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