{{short description|American lawyer}} {{Use American English|date=April 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} [[File:Henry Slobodin 1904.jpg|thumb|right|Slobodin at the first Socialist Party of America convention in Chicago, 1904]] '''Henry''' (also known as '''Harry''') '''Leon Slobodin'''<ref>{{cite book |title=The Papers of Woodrow Wilson |date=1983 |publisher=Princeton University Press |location=Princeton, New Jersey |pages=39–40 |url=https://archive.org/details/papersofwoodroww0044wils/page/39/mode/1up |access-date=24 June 2025}}</ref> (1866 – December 25, 1951)<ref name=nyt>{{cite news |title=HARRY L. SLOBODIN, A SOCIALIST LEADER; Attorney Here for Half Century Dies--Formerly Official of Party in This State |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1951/12/27/archives/harry-l-slobodin-a-socialist-leader-attorney-here-for-half-century.html |access-date=24 June 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=27 December 1951 |location=New York}}</ref> was an American attorney, socialist activist and frequent candidate for public office from New York.
==Biography== thumb|left|upright=0.8|Slobodin {{circa}} 1918 Slobodin was born in Rostov, Russia in 1866. He emigrated to the United States in 1890<ref name=nyt/> and graduated from the New York University School of Law in 1896.<ref>{{cite book |title=General Alumni Catalogue of New York University 1833-1905 |date=1906 |publisher=General Alumni Society |location=New York |page=76 |url=https://archive.org/details/alumnicat00newygeneralrich/page/76/mode/1up |access-date=24 June 2025}}</ref>
Slobodin was active in the Socialist Labor Party of America, serving as National Secretary before leaving in 1899 to join the Social Democratic Party of America alongside other socialist activists like Morris Hillquit. Slobodin was secretary of the eastern or Rochester branch of the SDP before it merged with dissident Lassallean members of the SLP to form the Socialist Party of America.<ref name="Kipnis2005">{{cite book|last=Kipnis|first=Ira|title=The American Socialist Movement 1897-1912|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ili0huEKAk0C&pg=PA33|accessdate=14 February 2016|date=April 2005|publisher=Haymarket Books|isbn=9781931859127|pages=33–}}</ref>
Thereafter, Slobodin served as chairman of the Socialist Party of New York for 15 years before breaking with the party over its opposition to World War I, co-founding the Social Democratic League of America. During and after the war, he consulted the White House on Russia and Central Europe.<ref name=nyt/>
Slobodin died in Lansdale, Pennsylvania on Christmas of 1951.<ref name=nyt/>
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==External links== * {{commons-inline}} * [https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=81650 Our Campaigns - Slobodin, Harry L.]
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