Victor L. Berger, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American democratic socialist politician
Date of Birth: 28-Feb-1860
Place of Birth: Austria-Hungary
Date of Death: 07-Aug-1929
Profession: politician, editor
Nationality: United States, Austria
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Victor L. Berger
- Victor Luitpold Berger (February 28, 1860 – August 7, 1929) was a founding member of the Social Democratic Party of America and its successor, the Socialist Party of America.
- Born in Austria-Hungary, Berger immigrated to the United States as a young man and became an important and influential socialist journalist in Wisconsin.
- He helped establish the so-called Sewer Socialist movement.
- Also a politician, in 1910, he was elected as the first Socialist to the U.S.
- House of Representatives, representing a district in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In 1919, Berger was convicted of violating the Espionage Act for publicizing his anti-interventionist views and as a result was denied the seat to which he had been twice elected in the House of Representatives.
- The verdict was eventually overturned by the Supreme Court in 1921, and Berger was elected to three successive terms in the 1920s.
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