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Important labor leaders

  1. Samuel Gompers
  2. Mary Harris “Mother” Jones
  3. John L. Lewis
  4. Lech Walesa
  5. Buzz Hargrove
  6. Keir Hardie
  7. Walter Reuther
  8. Emma Goldman
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Important labor leaders

  1. Samuel Gompers
  2. Mary Harris “Mother” Jones
  3. John L. Lewis
  4. Lech Walesa
  5. Buzz Hargrove
  6. Keir Hardie
  7. Walter Reuther
  8. Emma Goldman
  9. Joe Hill
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Important labor leaders

  1. Samuel Gompers
  2. Mary Harris “Mother” Jones
  3. John L. Lewis
  4. Lech Walesa
  5. Buzz Hargrove
  6. Keir Hardie
  7. Walter Reuther
  8. Emma Goldman
  9. Joe Hill
  10. Eugene Debs
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Was Emma Goldman ever really a labor leader?

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Sorta kinda, as a speaker and writer.

Important labor leaders

  1. Samuel Gompers
  2. Mary Harris “Mother” Jones
  3. John L. Lewis
  4. Lech Walesa
  5. Buzz Hargrove
  6. Keir Hardie
  7. Walter Reuther
  8. Emma Goldman
  9. Joe Hill
  10. Eugene Debs
  11. George Meany
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She was an anarchist who spoke and wrote on a wide variety of issues. But as far as I know, she never even belonged to any labor union, much less led anything in the labor movement.

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Important labor leaders

  1. Samuel Gompers
  2. Mary Harris “Mother” Jones
  3. John L. Lewis
  4. Lech Walesa
  5. Buzz Hargrove
  6. Keir Hardie
  7. Walter Reuther
  8. Emma Goldman
  9. Joe Hill
  10. Eugene Debs
  11. George Meany
  12. Ronald Reagan

I’m sure he’d love the company he finds himself in here.

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Important labor leaders

  1. Samuel Gompers
  2. Mary Harris “Mother” Jones
  3. John L. Lewis
  4. Lech Walesa
  5. Buzz Hargrove
  6. Keir Hardie
  7. Walter Reuther
  8. Emma Goldman
  9. Joe Hill
  10. Eugene Debs
  11. George Meany
  12. Ronald Reagan
  13. Cesar Chavez

Continuing the “labor” theme…the most interesting job held by a personal friend of yours.

  1. Rocket scientist

(Frankly I’m kind of amazed that I was able to pick Cesar Chavez–maybe he’s only really famous in California?)

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Chavez was famous well beyond California:

The most interesting job held by a personal friend of yours

  1. Rocket scientist
  2. CIA satellite photoanalyst
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The most interesting job held by a personal friend of yours

  1. Rocket scientist
  2. CIA satellite photoanalyst
  3. Player piano repairman.

(Too bad it didn’t say relative. The son of a direct ancestor of mine was appointed collector of the tax in New Haven under the infamous Tax Stamp Act. He had to ride up to Hartford quickly in order to resign his commission. His son later served on the Constitutional Convention that wrote the U.S. Constitution as a representative from Pennsylvania.)

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The most interesting job held by a personal friend of yours

  1. Rocket scientist
  2. CIA satellite photoanalyst
  3. Player piano repairman.
  4. NAVY Seal
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The most interesting job held by a personal friend of yours

  1. Rocket scientist
  2. CIA satellite photoanalyst
  3. Player piano repairman
  4. Navy SEAL
  5. JAG officer in the Green Zone, Baghdad
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The most interesting job held by a personal friend of yours

  1. Rocket scientist
  2. CIA satellite photoanalyst
  3. Player piano repairman
  4. Navy SEAL
  5. JAG officer in the Green Zone, Baghdad
  6. working actor

as opposed to an actor with a day job

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The most interesting job held by a personal friend of yours

  1. Rocket scientist
  2. CIA satellite photoanalyst
  3. Player piano repairman
  4. Navy SEAL
  5. JAG officer in the Green Zone, Baghdad
  6. working actor
  7. Designer for the repair of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil leak
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The most interesting job held by a personal friend of yours

  1. Rocket scientist
  2. CIA satellite photoanalyst
  3. Player piano repairman
  4. Navy SEAL
  5. JAG officer in the Green Zone, Baghdad
  6. working actor
  7. Designer for the repair of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil leak
  8. Tuskegee Airman
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The most interesting job held by a personal friend of yours

  1. Rocket scientist
  2. CIA satellite photoanalyst
  3. Player piano repairman
  4. Navy SEAL
  5. JAG officer in the Green Zone, Baghdad
  6. working actor
  7. Designer for the repair of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil leak
  8. Tuskegee Airman
  9. Episcopal deacon
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The most interesting job held by a personal friend of yours

  1. Rocket scientist
  2. CIA satellite photoanalyst
  3. Player piano repairman
  4. Navy SEAL
  5. JAG officer in the Green Zone, Baghdad
  6. working actor
  7. Designer for the repair of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil leak
  8. Tuskegee Airman
  9. Episcopal deacon
  10. Video game tester
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The most interesting job held by a personal friend of yours

  1. Rocket scientist
  2. CIA satellite photoanalyst
  3. Player piano repairman
  4. Navy SEAL
  5. JAG officer in the Green Zone, Baghdad
  6. working actor
  7. Designer for the repair of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil leak
  8. Tuskegee Airman
  9. Episcopal deacon
  10. Video game tester
  11. Guinea pig for new drugs
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The most interesting job held by a personal friend of yours

  1. Rocket scientist
  2. CIA satellite photoanalyst
  3. Player piano repairman
  4. Navy SEAL
  5. JAG officer in the Green Zone, Baghdad
  6. working actor
  7. Designer for the repair of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil leak
  8. Tuskegee Airman
  9. Episcopal deacon
  10. Video game tester
  11. Guinea pig for new drugs
  12. Coroner
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The most interesting job held by a personal friend of yours

  1. Rocket scientist
  2. CIA satellite photoanalyst
  3. Player piano repairman
  4. Navy SEAL
  5. JAG officer in the Green Zone, Baghdad
  6. working actor
  7. Designer for the repair of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil leak
  8. Tuskegee Airman
  9. Episcopal deacon
  10. Video game tester
  11. Guinea pig for new drugs
  12. Coroner
  13. Federal prosecutor

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U.S. Vice Presidential candidates who lost, their party, and the year

  1. Henry Cabot Lodge, Republican, 1960