Virginia Socialist Party papers [manuscript] 1931-1950.

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Virginia Socialist Party papers [manuscript] 1931-1950.

Chiefly correspondence and material on the U.S. presidential election of 1932 and the candidacy of Norman Thomas but incl. platforms, newsletters, minutes of meetings, clippings, posters, etc. of the continuing work of this party in Virginia.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7933377

University of Virginia. Library

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Thomas Norman Mattoon, 1884-1968

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Norman Mattoon Thomas (1884-1968), was a leading American socialist, pacifist, author, and six-time presidential candidate on the Socialist Party of America ticket, between 1928 and 1948. Born in Marion, Ohio, he was a graduate of Princeton University, attended Union Theological Seminary, where he became a socialist, and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1911. Thomas opposed the United States' entry into the First World War, a position that earned him the disapproval of many in his soci...

Socialist Party (Va.)

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