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| | Upton Sinclair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | Sinclair was born in Baltimore, Md., on Sept. 20, 1878. |
 | | George Creel, who opposed Sinclair in the Democratic primary, said of him: "Starry-eyed and ecstatic, he believed as implicitly in his nostrums as Peter the Hermit in the validity of the Children’s Crusade." In the end, not even President Roosevelt, the nation’s No. 1 Democrat, endorsed Sinclair. |
 | | Sinclair died on Nov. 25, 1968 in Bound Brook, N.J., and is buried in Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C. Sinclair’s memory is kept alive in Southern California through an annual Upton Sinclair Award dinner honoring social activists. |
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