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Devere Allen (1891-1955) —
of Wilton, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Providence, Providence
County, R.I., June 24,
1891.
Son of Henry L. Allen and Sarah Elizabeth (Champlin) Allen.
Editor for various publications,
including The Nation; overseas correspondent for newspapers
and magazines;
author;
Socialist candidate for U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1932, 1934; Labor candidate for Governor of
Connecticut, 1938, 1940.
Member, League for Industrial Democracy; American
Academy of Political and Social Science; American
Federation of Teachers; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in a hospital
at Westerly, Washington
County, R.I., August
27, 1955 (age 64 years, 64
days).
Interment at Wheeler
Cemetery, North Stonington, Conn.
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Louis A. Arnold (b. 1872) —
of Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis.
Born in Boonville, Warrick
County, Ind., July 13,
1872.
Son of Louis Arnold and Margaret (Greif) Arnold.
Milwaukee Tax Commissioner, 1912-14, 1922-32; member of Wisconsin
state senate, 1915-21; Socialist candidate for Governor of
Wisconsin, 1922; delegate to
Wisconsin convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Member, League for Industrial Democracy; Moose.
Burial
location unknown.
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Samuel Ralph Harlow (1885-1972) —
also known as S. Ralph Harlow —
of Smyrna (now Izmir), Turkey;
Northampton, Hampshire
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., July 20,
1885.
Son of Rev. Samuel A. Harlow and Caroline Mudge (Usher) Harlow.
Socialist. Congregationalist
minister; college
professor; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 2nd District, 1932, 1934, 1936.
Congregationalist.
Member, League for Industrial Democracy; NAACP; American
Association of University Professors; American
Federation of Teachers; Pi Gamma
Mu.
Died in Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard, Dukes
County, Mass., August
21, 1972 (age 87 years, 32
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. Samuel A. Harlow and Caroline Mudge (Usher) Harlow; married,
February
1, 1912, to Marion Stafford (died 1961); married to Elizabeth
(Kaufmann) Grigorakis (died 1974). |
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Max Schachtman (1904-1972) —
of Floral Park, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Warsaw, Poland,
September
10, 1904.
Son of Benjamin Schachtman and Sarah Schachtman.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; arrested
during a demonstration
on Wall Street in New York City, July 3, 1928, but charges against
him were dismissed; became an open supporter of Leon Trotsky's
opposition to Stalin about 1928, and was expelled from the Communist
Party; became a major Trotskyist leader and theoretician, and one of
the founders of the Socialist Workers Party; editor of The
Militant newspaper;
Workers candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1940 (23rd District), 1946 (15th
District); Workers candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1941; broke with Trotskyism in 1948, and
became more conservative in later life.
Jewish
ancestry. Member, League for Industrial Democracy.
Died, in Long Island Jewish Hospital,
New Hyde Park, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., November
4, 1972 (age 68 years, 55
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Benjamin Schachtman and Sarah Schachtman; married to Billie
Ramloff, Edith Harvey and Yetta Barsh (1925-1996). |
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Upton Beall Sinclair (1878-1968) —
also known as Upton Sinclair —
of California.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., September
20, 1878.
Novelist
and social crusader; author of
The Jungle, about the meat-packing industry in Chicago; arrested
in 1914 for picketing
in front of the Standard Oil Building in New York; Socialist
candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 10th District, 1920; Socialist
candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1922; candidate for Governor of
California, 1926 (Socialist), 1934 (Democratic); Socialist
candidate for Presidential Elector for California, 1928,
1932;
received the Pulitzer
Prize for fiction in 1943 for the novel
Dragon's Teeth.
Member, United
World Federalists; League for Industrial Democracy; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Died in Bound Brook, Somerset
County, N.J., November
25, 1968 (age 90 years, 66
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Norman Mattoon Thomas (1884-1968) —
also known as Norman Thomas —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Marion, Marion
County, Ohio, November
20, 1884.
Socialist. Ordained
minister; candidate for Governor of
New York, 1924, 1938; candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1925 (Socialist), 1929; candidate for New York
state senate 14th District, 1926; candidate for President
of the United States, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944, 1948;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 6th District, 1930; candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1934; candidate for delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1937.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Civil
Liberties Union; League for Industrial Democracy.
Died December
19, 1968 (age 84 years, 29
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1910
to Frances Violet Stewart. |
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