Eugene Victor Debs (November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926) was an American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States.
Political cartoon from the July 21, 1894 cover of Harper's Weekly. The political cartoon is labeled "The Vanguard of Anarchy" and depicts Eugene Debs the leader of the American Railway Union being carried on a throne among a procession which carries a standard that states anarchy.
Political cartoon by W. A. Rogers depicting Eugene V. Debs, who is wearing a crown labeled "Debs American Railway Union" and sitting atop a railway swing bridge labeled "highway of trade". (1894)
Debs sketched by an artist for the San Francisco Call (1897)
Debs illustrated by Oregonian artist Harry Daniel Murphy (1904)
Debs illustrated by Oregonian artist Harry Daniel Murphy (1904)
Political cartoon by C. W. Fryer depicting Socialist candidate for President of the United States Eugene V. Debbs about to spear a two-headed octopus labeled "Capitalism" with the faces of Republican candidate Teddy Roosevelt and Democratic candidate Alton B. Parker.
Political cartoon by C. W. Fryer depicting Socialist candidate for President of the United States Eugene V. Debbs hoisting a two-headed octopus labeled "Capitalism" with the faces of Republican candidate Teddy Roosevelt and Democratic candidate Alton B. Parker over his shoulder on a spear labeled "Franchise".
The Lost Child by Samuel D. Ehrhart (1908)
1909 advertisement by the Progress Publishing Company in the The Progressive Woman featuring a sketch of Debs
This Harper’s Weekly cartoon depicts the leftward movement of Progressive Party presidential nominee Theodore Roosevelt by picturing him stealing the political clothes of populist Democrat William Jennings Bryan and Socialist Eugene Debs. (1912)
Debs on the cover of the Marxist magazine The Liberator (1919)
Cartoon showing US Socialist Presidential candidate, who ran from in prison in the 1920 election
A sketch of Debs that accompanied his obituary (1926)
Debs during his prison sentence at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in 1920.
Socialist leaders George E. Roewer, Jr. and Seymour Stedman leaving Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, May 1920, where they visited imprisoned Socialist Party Presidential nominee Eugene V. Debs.
Telegram from Attorney General Daugherty to the warden of the Atlanta Penitentiary regarding the commutation by President Harding of Eugene V. Debs sentence.
Eugene V. Debs leaving the Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, on Christmas Day 1921. He had been imprisoned in 1918 under the Sedition Act, for giving a speech against participation in the First World War. President Warren G. Harding commuted his sentence to time served in December 1921.
Debs standing, holding hat in air outside of the Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia
Debs after his release from Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in 1921.
Debs after his release from Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in 1921.
Debs leaving White House, 24 December 1921, the day after his release from prison following a Presidential pardon.
Theodore Debs (left) embraces his brother Eugene V. Debs (right) upon his return to his home in Terre Haute, Indiana after serving nearly three years of a 10 year sentence for sedition at Atlanta Federal Penitentiary.