stackyFACTSEugene V. Debs didn't let a minor detail like federal incarceration stop his political ambitions. Arrested for speaking out against the draft during the early 1900s, he ran for US President as a Socialist in 1920 from inside an Atlanta penitentiary. Despite literally sitting behind bars, he managed to secure nearly a million votes.
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