Founding Fathers
Founding Fathers The 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that drafted the
CONSTITUTION OF THE USA. They included outstanding public officials, of whom the most respected were George
WASHINGTON and Benjamin
FRANKLIN, while the leaders were James
MADISON and George Mason of Virginia, Governor Morris and James Wilson of Pennsylvania, and Roger Sherman and Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts. Of the 55 delegates, over half were lawyers, while planters and merchants, together with a few physicians and college professors, made up the rest. Washington was elected President of the Convention and William Jackson secretary. Jackson's notes were meagre, but a report of the debates was given in Madison's journal (and in notes made by other delegates), though, as the Convention was sworn to secrecy, Madison's notes were not published until 1840.
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Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs
Magazine article from: Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society; 10/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Radical: The Life and rimes of Eugene Victor Debs. By Marguerite Young. Edited...a sprawling, epic biography of Eugene Debs and the social and intellectual...s vastly superior biography, Eugene V Debs: Citizen and Socialist...
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Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction; 3/22/2000; ; 611 words
; ...Young. Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs. Knopf, 1999. 599 pp. $35.00. Marguerite Young...a biography of the great American socialist leader Eugene Debs (1855-1926). But in fact Harp Song for a Radical...
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The bending cross; a biography of Eugene Victor Debs. (reprint, 1947).(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2007; 447 words
; 9781931859400 The bending cross; a biography of Eugene Victor Debs. (reprint, 1947) Ginger, Ray. Haymarket Books...socialist leader, and five-time presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs. While clearly in admiration of Debs, Ginger (formerly...
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Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs.(Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Antioch Review; 9/22/2000; ; 597 words
; ...a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs by Marguerite Young, ed. Charles...sympathetic with the plight of the worker, Debs devoted his life to a united front...of the utopian dream. To solidify Debs's role in all this the reader must...
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Gentle rebel: letters of Eugene V. Debs.
Magazine article from: Labour/Le Travail; 3/22/1997; 700+ words
; ...Gentle Rebel: Letters of Eugene V. Debs (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press 1995). EUGENE VICTOR DEBS remained constantly in the...in Britain, and, in America, Eugene Debs. As Debs wrote to Kautsky...
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Eugene V. Debs and the Idea of Socialism.(late leader of the Socialist Party)
Magazine article from: The Progressive; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...so we would do well to remember Eugene Victor Debs. Ninety years ago, at the time The Progressive was born, Debs was nationally famous as leader...jail building to say goodbye to Eugene Debs. As he started down the walkway...
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Socialism's doom: The rise and fall of Eugene Debs.(Commentary)(Op-Ed)(Political Books)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 10/12/1999; ; 700+ words
; Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926) was an American original...That campaign took place in 1920, but Debs began running for president as a Socialist...FOR A RADICAL: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF EUGENE VICTOR DEBS Marguerite Young Edited and with...
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The conscience of a socialist.(BOOKS)(Democracy's Prisoner: Eugene Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The American Conservative; 6/30/2008; ; 700+ words
; [Democracy's Prisoner: Eugene Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent, Ernest Freeberg, Harvard University Press, 380 pages] EUGENE VICTOR DEBS was a socialist icon, a pioneer of 20th-century...
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Eugene V. Debs: an American paradox.
Magazine article from: Monthly Labor Review; 8/1/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...radical' causes supported by Debs during the early 20th century J...article is drawn from Letter.9 of Eugene V. Debs (Champaign, IL, University of...Press, 1990), which he edited. Eugene Victor Debs played an important role in...
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EUGENE VICTOR WALTER, AT 78; PROFESSOR, AUTHOR, MAGICIAN
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 6/4/2003; ; 700+ words
; Eugene Victor Walter, 78, was a man of consuming passions. A former political...York City. He was named after union leader and Socialist activist Eugene Victor Debs, and was raised in the Bronx, where he became adept at storytelling...
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Eugene Victor Debs
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Eugene Victor Debs Eugene Victor Debs (1855-1926), a leading American union organizer and, after 1896, a prominent Socialist, ran five times as the Socialist party nominee for president. Eugene V. Debs was born on Nov. 5, 1855, in Terre...
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Eugene Victor Debs Rostow
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Eugene Victor Debs Rostow 1913-2002, U.S. lawyer, educator, and government official, brother of Walt Whitman Rostow , b. Brooklyn, N...
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Debs, Eugene Victor
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
DEBS, EUGENE VICTOR Eugene V. Debs (1855 – 1926) was a pioneer labor organizer and five-time Socialist Party candidate for the U.S. Presidency. Debs advocated abolition of child labor, the right of women to vote, unemployment...
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Debs, Eugene
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
DEBS, EUGENE Labor leader, presidential candidate...radical, social, and political agitator, Eugene Debs employed a combination of self...century. The son of Alsatian immigrants, Eugene Victor Debs was born in Terre Haute, Indiana...
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Debs, Eugene V.
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
Debs, Eugene V. (1855–1926), labor...candidate.The son of Alsatian immigrants, Eugene Victor Debs became a railroad worker at age...The Bending Cross, A Biography of Eugene Victor Debs , 1949. Nick Salvatore...
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