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Merged into <a href="/org/764/000051611/">AFL-CIO</a> in 1955. <p> <table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_actors"> <tr><th><b>Name</b></th><th><b>Occupation</b></th><th><b>Birth</b></th><th>Death</b></th><th><b>Known for</b></th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/380/000167876/"><font size=-1>Victor L. Berger</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Feb-1860</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Aug-1929</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Socialist Rep. from Wisconsin</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/860/000118506/"><font size=-1>Martin P. Durkin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Mar-1894</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Jan-1955</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>US Secretary of Labor, 1953</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/313/000089046/"><font size=-1>Samuel Gompers</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Labor Leader</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Jan-1850</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Dec-1924</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>First President of the AFL</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/480/000206859/"><font size=-1>John L. Lewis</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Labor Leader</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Feb-1880</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Jun-1969</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>President, United Mine Workers, 1920-60</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/674/000205059/"><font size=-1>Henry Demarest Lloyd</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Journalist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-May-1847</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Sep-1903</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Radical reporter</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/103/000086842/"><font size=-1>George Meany</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Labor Leader</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Aug-1894</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Jan-1980</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>AFL-CIO President, 1955-79</td> </tr> </table> <br><br><p> <font size=-1>Do you know something we don't?</font><br> <font size=-1><a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=54982" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a></font><br> <p> <br><br><p><font size=-1>Copyright ©2016 Soylent Communications</font><p> </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"><b class="b1f"></b><b class="b2f"></b><b class="b3f"></b><b class="b4f"></b><div class="contentf"><center><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a><br><br><a style="color: #0000ff" href="http://mapper.nndb.com/maps/168/000000168/"><img src="http://mapper.nndb.com/t/168/168/s168.jpg" width=128><br><font size="-1" face="trebuchet ms">Presidential Candidates 2007</font></a><br><br><font face="Trebuchet MS, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</font></center></div><b class="b4f"></b><b class="b3f"></b><b class="b2f"></b><b class="b1f"></b><br clear=left><b class="b1f"></b><b class="b2f"></b><b class="b3f"></b><b class="b4f"></b><div class="contentf"><center><b class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">Bibliographies</b><p>NNDB has added thousands of bibliographies for people, organizations, schools, and general topics, listing more than 50,000 books and 120,000 other kinds of references. 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