Laurence Gronlund
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Laurence Gronlund was an American
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 lawyer and socialist
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Biography

Born in Copenhagen
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, Denmark
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, he graduated from the 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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