"Victor Luitpold Berger, the first member of the Socialist party ever to sit in a United States Congress, was a disappointment to those who imagined a man of his views to be a bearded, bomb-tossing anarchist haunting the bourgeois world. His life was a model of respectability. It included such unlikely vocations as punching cattle and high-school teaching. As a member of the Sixty-second Congress, 1911-1913, Berger peered at his colleagues in the House of Representatives from behind thin-rimmed spectacles with a bearing that was courteous and dignified to the point of stodginess. The end for Berger was equally respectable: instead of falling behind the barricades clutching the red flag of the proletariat, he was run over by a Milwaukee streetcar!"
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Journalists from the United StatesMembers of the United States House of RepresentativesJews from the United StatesSocialists from the United StatesPeople from Austria
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Roderick Nash, Victor L. Berger: Making Marx Respectable, The Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 47, No. 4 (Summer, 1964), pp. 301-308
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Victor L. Berger
Victor L. Berger (February 28, 1860 – August 7, 1929) was an Austrian-American socialist politician and journalist who was a founding member of the Social Democratic Party of America and its successor, the Socialist Party of America.
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