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Norman Mattoon Thomas
Norman Mattoon Thomas 1884-1968, American socialist leader, b. Marion, Ohio; grad. Princeton (1905), Union Theological Seminary (1911). He served as pastor of several Presbyterian churches and did settlement work in New York City until 1918. (He formally left the ministry in 1931.) In World War I, he became a pacifist and joined (1918) the Socialist party. He founded (1918) The World Tomorrow, was (1921-22) an associate editor of the Nation, and became (1922) codirector of the League for Industrial Democracy. He was also active in setting up the American Civil Liberties Union . Thomas unsuccessfully sought election as governor of New York (1924, 1938) and as mayor of New York City (1925, 1929). After the death (1926) of Eugene Debs , he assumed leadership of the Socialist party and was repeatedly (1928, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944, 1948) the party's candidate for president.
“The American people will never
knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of “liberalism,” they will adopt
every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a
socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” He went on to say: “I no
longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The
Democratic Party has adopted our platform.”