Victor Luitpold Berger (1860–1929) was a founding member of the Social Democratic Party of America and its successor, the Socialist Party of America. Berger was an important and influential Socialist journalist who helped establish the so-called Sewer Socialist movement. The first Socialist elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, in 1919 he was convicted of violating the Espionage Act for his anti-militarist views and as a result was twice denied the seat to which he had been elected in the House of Representatives.
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