Debs was born on November 5, 1855 in Terre Haute, Indiana to French immigrants from Alsace. His father came from a wealthy family, and owned a textiles factory as well as a small butcher's market. Although Debs did attend public education as a youth, he dropped out of high school at the age of 14 and began to work for Vandalia, a railway company, as a painter and car cleaner, but was later given a higher responsibility as a locomotive fireman.
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| - Eugene V. Debs (Red, White, and Red)
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| - Debs was born on November 5, 1855 in Terre Haute, Indiana to French immigrants from Alsace. His father came from a wealthy family, and owned a textiles factory as well as a small butcher's market. Although Debs did attend public education as a youth, he dropped out of high school at the age of 14 and began to work for Vandalia, a railway company, as a painter and car cleaner, but was later given a higher responsibility as a locomotive fireman.
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| - Debs was born on November 5, 1855 in Terre Haute, Indiana to French immigrants from Alsace. His father came from a wealthy family, and owned a textiles factory as well as a small butcher's market. Although Debs did attend public education as a youth, he dropped out of high school at the age of 14 and began to work for Vandalia, a railway company, as a painter and car cleaner, but was later given a higher responsibility as a locomotive fireman. Debs had joined a union of locomotive firemen (the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen) in 1875, and quickly rose through the ranks, first as an editor of the union's periodical, and eventually becoming the Grand Secretary and Treasurer in 1880. In 1884, Debs served a term as a Democrat in the Indiana General Assembly. In 1893, Debs resigned from his post at the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, and then began to organize his own union.
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