Upton Sinclair



Upton Sinclair (b 1878) was the twenty-ninth President of the United States, as well as its first Socialist president. He served from 1921 to 1929. He slashed the military budget and made new labor laws. Sinclair took a lighter stance toward the C.S. than his predecessor, Theodore Roosevelt. He allowed the Freedom Party to gain support in the early 1920s and he was lenient in the weapons checks in the Confederacy. He also forced George Armstrong Custer to retire in 1922. During his presidency the United States prospered. He also canceled the C.S. reparations to the United States. He was succeeded by his vice president, Hosea Blackford.

In addition to being the US's first Socialist president, Sinclair holds the distinction of having been the first American President born after the War of Secession.