Biography

Eugene V. Debs was born on November 5, 1855 in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA. He was married to Kate Metzel. He died on October 20, 1926 in Elmhurst, Illinois, USA.

Union leader.

USA presidential candidate for the Social Democratic Party (1900) and Socialist Party (1904, 1908, 1912, 1920). Ran final campaign from a prison cell.

A founder of the International Workers of the World (the "Wobblies").

I am opposed to every war but one, that war with heart and soul, and that is the worldwide war of the social revolution. In that war I am prepared to fight in any way the ruling class may make necessary, even to the barricades.

The working class who fight the battles, the working class who make the sacrifices, the working class who shed the blood, the working class who furnish the corpses, the working class never yet had a voice in declaring war.