Born to a poor family of farmers in Charleston, South Carolina, Landon embarked for California in 1849 in search for wealth and better health when he contracted tuberculosis as a young man. With his wife, Landon experienced initial difficulties adjusting to life in California, but eventually worked as a newspaper publisher. Influenced by the socialist ideas within his circle of friends, and witnessing the conditions of the working man at the minefield and in the city, Landon devoted the following years towards promoting social justice and workers' rights. In 1851, Landon purchased a farmhouse near Bernheim and established a utopian colony, and founded The Liberty Press, a leftist newspaper which garnered popularity among locals. Through his publications, Landon became a prominent political
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| - Born to a poor family of farmers in Charleston, South Carolina, Landon embarked for California in 1849 in search for wealth and better health when he contracted tuberculosis as a young man. With his wife, Landon experienced initial difficulties adjusting to life in California, but eventually worked as a newspaper publisher. Influenced by the socialist ideas within his circle of friends, and witnessing the conditions of the working man at the minefield and in the city, Landon devoted the following years towards promoting social justice and workers' rights. In 1851, Landon purchased a farmhouse near Bernheim and established a utopian colony, and founded The Liberty Press, a leftist newspaper which garnered popularity among locals. Through his publications, Landon became a prominent political
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| - Sierran Senator from San Joaquin
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| - Landonism · Republicanism · ·
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| - 1874-04-13(xsd:date)
- 1877-11-11(xsd:date)
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| - The Jacobite Wine, The Phrygian Cap, Black Rose, Exploitation in the Modern Age, Anglo-American Application of Karl Marx
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| - Chairman of the Second Californian Republic Executive Council
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| - Born to a poor family of farmers in Charleston, South Carolina, Landon embarked for California in 1849 in search for wealth and better health when he contracted tuberculosis as a young man. With his wife, Landon experienced initial difficulties adjusting to life in California, but eventually worked as a newspaper publisher. Influenced by the socialist ideas within his circle of friends, and witnessing the conditions of the working man at the minefield and in the city, Landon devoted the following years towards promoting social justice and workers' rights. In 1851, Landon purchased a farmhouse near Bernheim and established a utopian colony, and founded The Liberty Press, a leftist newspaper which garnered popularity among locals. Through his publications, Landon became a prominent political thinker, and gained a large base of followers. When Sierra was formed in 1858, Landon deeply opposed the institution of monarchy and quickly rose in the ranks of the Democratic-Republican, and became one of the party's most outspoken republicans. Developing close ties with other leaders including Prime Minister Ulysses Perry, he served as a senator for San Joaquin. After the political assassination of Prime Minister Perry, Landon encouraged rebellion, and eventually started it himself in 1874, triggering the Sierran Civil War, and assuming leadership over Second California Republic as its executive chairman. Hailed as a republican and a socialist revolutionary, Landon's opposition to the Sierran monarchy ultimately failed. Following his surrender at the end of the civil war in 1877, Landon was placed on a lifelong house arrest at his Fresno residence. Landon represented one of the most prominent republican figures in Sierran history, and was among the last of the so-called "Radical Democratic-Republicans" leaders who advocated for the abolition of the monarchy in the 19th century. Landon is one of the best-known republicans and socialists in Anglo-America, and spent the remaining eleven years after the war under house arrest, writing the majority of his works criticizing monarchism, capitalism, and social blights in Sierra, including his most famous work, Exploitation in the Modern Age. During his final years, he developed Landonism, which was the cumulative synthesis of his views, and would be cited as inspiration for the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution. While Landon has been revered romantically in contemporary times as a revolutionary, his military tactics, especially those towards the end of the civil war, and his governance as the Republic's only chairman have been met with controversy, and has attracted criticism. Landon is also the paternal grandfather of Robert Landon (1901-1909), Sierra's 9th Prime Minister who was a Democratic-Republican. After decades of his contributions and views towards socialism being ignored in the Western world, there has been a contemporary revival in interest of his works.
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