DARLINGTON HOOPES died in 1989 at the age of 93. He was twice the Socialist candidate for the US presidency. He ran against Eisenhower and Stevenson in 1952, gaining 20,000 votes to Eisenhower's 33 million, in a campaign which cost him only $150. He ran again in 1956. Born into a Quaker family in Harford County, Maryland, he studied agriculture at the University of Wisconsin and then turned to the law. His practice was in Reading, Pennsylvania, a socialist stronghold in the 1930s and 1940s. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives ftom 1930 to 1936, introducing a successful child labour bill, and City Solicitor of Reading from 1936 to 1940. Born in Yorkshire, England, Paul Henderson holds graduate degrees in American Studies (M.A.) and 20thC US History (Ph.D.). He became interested in the American Socialist Party while resident in Mississippi, and met with Hoopes in 1975. Now living in England, he currently works for a prominent US academic publisher.
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Most Americans are unaware the the United States had an activist Socialist Party from the late 1800s to the 1950s (with a small group remaining today). Before the Democrats, it was the Socialist Party that fought for child labor laws, pensions for the elderly, and living wages. One of the leaders of this activist era was Darlington Hoopes of Reading, Pennsylvania. This biography places his life in the broader context of American politics. As a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature in the 1930s, Hoopes led the successful fight to outlaw the use of child labor in factories, textile mills, and coal mines. At the national level, Hoopes wiorked with Norman Thomas in an unsuccessful attempt to maintain a viable national party that had previously attracted so many working class men and women. This book is an interesting look at the both the personal and political life of an American socialist.
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