# Henry Slobodin

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{{short description|American lawyer}}
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[[File:Henry Slobodin 1904.jpg|thumb|right|Slobodin at the first [Socialist Party of America](/source/Socialist_Party_of_America) convention in [Chicago](/source/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](/source/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](/source/New_York_(state)).

==Biography==
thumb|left|upright=0.8|Slobodin {{circa}} 1918
Slobodin was born in [Rostov](/source/Rostov), [Russia](/source/Russian_Empire) in 1866. He emigrated to the [United States](/source/United_States) in 1890<ref name=nyt/> and graduated from the [New York University School of Law](/source/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](/source/Socialist_Labor_Party_of_America), serving as National Secretary before leaving in 1899 to join the [Social Democratic Party of America](/source/Social_Democratic_Party_of_America) alongside other socialist activists like [Morris Hillquit](/source/Morris_Hillquit). Slobodin was secretary of the eastern or [Rochester](/source/Rochester%2C_New_York) branch of the SDP before it merged with dissident [Lassallean](/source/Lassallean) members of the SLP to form the [Socialist Party of America](/source/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](/source/Socialist_Party_of_New_York) for 15 years before breaking with the party over its opposition to [World War I](/source/World_War_I), co-founding the [Social Democratic League of America](/source/Social_Democratic_League_of_America). During and after the war, he consulted the [White House](/source/White_House) on [Russia](/source/Russia) and [Central Europe](/source/Central_Europe).<ref name=nyt/>

Slobodin died in [Lansdale, Pennsylvania](/source/Lansdale%2C_Pennsylvania) on [Christmas](/source/Christmas) of 1951.<ref name=nyt/>

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==External links==
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* [https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=81650 Our Campaigns - Slobodin, Harry L.]

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