Researching John Spargo
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 555 people with the Spargo surname? In that year Spargo was ranked number 3024 for popularity in the UK. |
The name John means "God is gracious" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of John Spargo on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for John Spargo and the Spargo Genealogy
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| Did you know that there are currently 386 people with the Spargo surname in the UK? Spargo is now ranked number 3678 for popularity in the UK. |
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John Spargo
John Spargo (January 31, 1876 – August 17, 1966) was a Cornishman who came to New York in 1901 and became a political writer and late in life an expert in the history and crafts of Vermont. At first Spargo was active in the Socialist Party of America. A Methodist preacher he tried to meld the Protestant Social Gospel with Marxist socialism in Marxian Socialism and Religion: A Study of the Relation of the Marxian Theories to the Fundamental Principles of Religion (1915). He also founded a settlement house in Yonkers, N.Y. Spargo moved steadily to the right after 1917 when he supported American intervention in World War I. With AFL leader Samuel Gompers he organized the American Alliance for Labor and Democracy in 1917. Spargo helped draft the Colby Note that formalised the Wilson administration's anti-communist policies. He strongly denounced the Bolshevik Revolution in Bolshevism: The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy (1919). He opposed the foreign policy of the New Deal, especially its recognition of the USSR in 1933. He supported the House Un-American Activities Committee in the late 1930s and Senator Joseph McCarthy in the early 1950s. He endorsed Barry Goldwater In the 1964 Elections.
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Other names that sound a bit like Spargo
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