_____ was the Socialist Party presidential candidate who had been jailed for denouncing U.S. participation in World War I as a capitalist endeavor.

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Eugene V. Debs was a prominent socialist leader in the United States who ran for president five times as the candidate of the Socialist Party. He was jailed in 1918 for his speech in Canton, Ohio, where he denounced U.S. involvement in World War I, arguing it was a capitalist war that did not serve the interests of the working class.

_____ Was the Socialist Party Presidential Candidate Who Had Been