Laurence Gronlund was an American

United States

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 lawyer and socialist

Socialism

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Biography

Born in Copenhagen

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, Denmark

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, he graduated from the University of Copenhagen

University of Copenhagen

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's Faculty of Law

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 in 1865, and moved to the United States in 1867. He taught German

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 in Milwaukee until was admitted to the bar in 1869, at that time beginning practice in Chicago

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He became a writer and lecturer on Socialism and was closely connected with the work of the Socialist Labor Party

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 from 1874 to 1884, after which devoted himself almost exclusively to lecturing until his appointment to a post in the Bureau of Labor Statistics

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. After his period of civil service

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, he again returned to the lecture field, and was an editorial writer for the New York and Chicago American from 1898 until his death in New York City

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Works

• The Coming Revolution (1880)
• The Co-operative Commonwealth in its Outlines, An Exposition of Modern Socialism (1884) (the same on Google Books)
• Ça Ira!, or Danton
  Georges Danton
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   in the French Revolution
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  (1888) (at Internet Archive) (at Google Books)
• a rehabilitation of Danton (1890)
• Our Destiny, The Influence of Socialism on Morals and Religion (1890)
• The New Economy (1898).

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