He freed an ailing Eugene Debs from federal prison, where Debs had been locked up for criticizing World War I, and he appointed Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Los Angeles’ first female public ...

Q: Has anyone ever run for president while in prison? — L. M. Frank | Los Angeles Eugene V. Debs was in an Atlanta penitentiary, serving a ten-year sentence, when he lost the 1920 presidential ...

Debs’ personal best showing was in the presidential election of 1912, with 6% of the vote. To be fair, that was when he was more mobile. Even with the Great War over and the Sedition Act repealed by a ...

As it must to all men, Death came last week to Eugene Victor Debs, Socialist. In Woodstock, Ill., there is a boys' school, a collection of retired farmers, a prison. In the prison in the year 1895 ...

Debs ran for president as the Socialist Party's candidate every year from 1900 to 1912. In 1918, he gave an antiwar speech in Canton, Ohio that got him convicted under the country’s wartime ...