Leon Greenbaum

Leon Greenbaum (born Greenebaum; 25 May 1866 – 9 June 1925) was an American socialist official, writer, lecturer, union organizer and political candidate from Missouri.

[1][2] He took a variety of jobs as a youth and a young man, working successively as an office boy, retail clerk, stenographer, and traveling salesman.

[3] In 1896, while on a business trip, Greenbaum read the popular populist propaganda tract Coin's Financial School, by W. H. Harvey, later meeting the author.

[2] Greenbaum became active in progressive reform politics during the last years of the 1890s, joining an effort to bring the system of initiative and referendum to Missouri in 1899.

[7] During his time as Executive Secretary, Greenbaum oversaw the difficult task of merging 23 loosely affiliated state parties into a national organization.