In 1920, US union leader and prominent socialist activist Eugene V. Debs was nominated and ran for president on the Socialist Party ticket. He conducted his entire campaign from his prison cell, since he had been convicted of wartime sedition in 1918. Nevertheless, he received almost a million votes. Debs also ran for president in 1900, 1904, 1908, and 1912 on the Socialist ticket, but had started his political career as the Democratic City Clerk of Terre Haute, Indiana.
Source: "Eugene Victor Debs, 1855-1926," EugeneVDebs.com.
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