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| Affiliation | Socialist |
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| Name | Algernon Lee |
| Address | 15 West 11th Street
New York City, New York , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
| Born |
September 15, 1873 |
| Died |
January 05, 1954
(81 years) |
| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | RBH
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| Info | Born in Dubuque, Iowa, c. 1873.
Graduate, Univ. of Minnesota
Editor of "The Tocsin," a Minneapolis paper
Editor of "The People," a Socialist Labor newspaper, and later "The Daily Call."
Was a delegate at a convention held on 6/16/1900 to unite the Social Democratic and Socialist Labor Parties in New York State [NYT 6/17/1900].
President of the Rand School of Social Science 1909-1954 with some brief interruptions.
New York City Alderman, 1918-19 and 1921. Voted against municipal purchase of war "savings stamps." A major issue for him was city ownership of the transit system.
In the early 1930s, Lee began to speak out against Nazism and Communism.
As a member of the "Old Guard," he walked out of the 1936 Socialist Party National Convention.
Affiliated with the American Labor Party in 1936 but left when the ALP was unable to condemn Communism.
He helped form a group called the Social Democratic Federation and was serving as its national chairman at the time of his death. The SDF was considered a more moderate educational organization than the Socialist Party.
Lee was a strong advocate of participation in World War II, though he had opposed US involvement in World War I.
His wife Matilda died in 1953.
Lee died in the Long Island Home at Amityville on 1/5/1954.
New York Times 1/6/1954 |
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