biography
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Hillquit, Morris
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originally Hillkowitz
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1869–1933)
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| biography:
| Lawyer, writer, and reformer, born in Riga, Latvia. He emigrated to the USA in 1886, dropped out of high school to go to work, and helped found the United Hebrew Trades (1888). In 1891 he graduated from New York University Law School, helped found the Socialist Party of America (1900), and afterwards defended many Socialists, including those prosecuted in 1917–18 for anti-war activities. He failed in several bids for elective office. A moderate who tried to adapt European Socialism to the American situation, he published several works on Socialism, including Socialism in Theory and Practice (1909). |
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