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George Henry Evans 1805-56, American labor and agrarian reformer, b. England. After emigrating (1820) to New York City, he edited several newspapers, among them the Workingman's Advocate. He also led a number of workingman's parties from 1827 to 1837. His agrarian reform programs included the right of free homesteads for all.

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Evans, George Henry (1805–56), editor of the Working Man's Advocate and other newspapers devoted to the interests of labor. His History of the … Working Men's Party (1840) opposed Fourieristic ideas of association and based its theories on Paine's individualism and Jefferson's agrarianism. In his agitation for “free homesteads,” Evans foreshadowed Henry George's “single tax.”

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