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A Short Biography of Samuel Gompers

Author Name:

Samuel Gompers

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Other Names:

Samuel Gompers

Born:

27 Jan 1850

Died:

13 Dec 1924




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Union Leader                          
                          
In 1867, at the age of seventeen, he married sixteen year old Sophia Julian, six children survived infancy.                          
Elected president of Cigarmakers' International Union Local 144 in 1875.

Key figure in American labor history. Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor - AFL, and served as that organization's president from 1886 to 1894 and from 1895 until his death in 1924.

Joined the Anti-Imperialist League to oppose President William McKinley's plan to annex the Philippines.

Appointed by President Wilson to the Council of National Defense.