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Gus Hall (born Arvo Kustaa Halberg; October 8, 1910 – October 13, 2000) was the General Secretary of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and a perennial candidate for president of the United States. He was the Communist Party nominee in the 1972, 1976, 1980, and 1984 presidential elections.
Gus Hall was an American political organizer who was the general secretary of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA; 1959–2000) and a four-time candidate for U.S. president (1972, 1976, 1980, 1984).
Sep 18, 2021 · Imprisoned in the 1950s for advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government after jumping bail to Mexico, Hall spent time behind bars in Leavenworth, Kan., in a cell next to gangster George ...
Oct 17, 2000 · Gus Hall, the zealous lifelong Communist who led the American branch of the party from the cold war through political oblivion in the post-Soviet era, died on Friday at Lenox Hill Hospital in...
Gus Hall (October 8, 1910 – October 13, 2000) was a leader of the Communist Party USA and its five-time U.S. presidential candidate. Born in Minnesota to a leftist family, Hall joined the American Communist Party at age 17 and became a union organizer in his 20s, helping to found the United Steelworkers of America.
Oct 16, 2000 · Gus Hall, the zealous, lifelong Communist who led the American branch of the party from the turblence of the Cold War through political oblivion in the post-Soviet era, died on Friday at Lenox...
Sep 9, 1991 · Gus Hall, aging chairman of the Communist Party U.S.A., calls his New York City office a “museum of history.” But among all these historic mementos, Hall is, unwittingly, the...
Oct 17, 2000 · Gus Hall, the lumberjack, iron miner, steelworker and union organizer whose name became synonymous with the American Communist Party, which he led for 40 years, has died at the age of...
Oct 26, 2000 · Gus Hall, an American Communist, died on October 13th, aged 90. Oct 26th 2000 |. FOUR times Gus Hall ran for the presidency of the United States. In his best try, in 1976, he received 58,992...
Apr 27, 2021 · Little in the way of biography has been written about Gus Hall (Arvo Halberg), General Secretary and later Chair of the Communist Party USA for a 50-year span beginning in 1959.
