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-'''Norman Thomas''' (1884-1968) was an [[American]] minister Socialist leader the [[Socialist Party of America]]'s presidential candidate six times. He was born in Marion, [[Ohio]], on November 20, 1884, as the son of a [[Presbyterian]] minister. In 1905, he graduated from [[Princeton University]] with a degree in political science. Sometime after his graduation, Thomas became a life-long socialist. After studying at the Union Theological Seminary, he was ordained as a minister and became the pastor of East Harlem Presbyterian Church in New York City.
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-In 1918 Thomas formed the magazine ''The World Tomorrow'' and in 1920 was one of the founders of the [[American Civil Liberties Union]] (ACLU). He unsuccessfully ran as the [[Socialist Party of America]]'s candidate for governor of [[New York]] in 1924, and in 1928, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944 and 1948 he was the Socialist Party of America's presidential candidate and rarely won 1% of the vote.
-In 1940, Thomas, along with [[Burton Wheeler]], [[Charles Lindbergh]], and Sen. [[Robert M. LaFollette, Jr.]] formed the [[America First Committee]]. The America First Committee grew to over 800,000 members in its first year. With the end of the [[Communazi period]] and [[Hitler]]'s invasion of the [[Soviet Union]], Thomas said,
-:"Of course Socialist sympathy will always go with people attacked. But for [[Stalin]] we have no sympathy. His cruelty and duplicity have equaled Hitler's. We shall watch with interest to see how fast [[American Communists]] and the organs they control or influence will become propagandists for American entry into the war on the side of those 'great democracies'—Stalin's [[dictatorship]] and the [[British Empire]]."<ref>''[[New York Times]]'', June 24, 1941.</ref>
-The America First Committee was disbanded after the [[attack on Pearl Harbor]].
-In the later years of his life, Thomas protested the [[Vietnam War]] and the [[Cold War]]. He died on December 19, 1968, at the age of eighty-four.
-==References==
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