Who was this candidate?

[AussieMick]

Congratulations to you both Anita and Steve.
As for the citizenship issue .... well .... if you cannot rely on the internet what's the world coming to, I ask myself.

I trust in Steve's certainty . Even though I see from one site that Debs had his citizenship rights "restored" posthumously.
https://www.nytimes.com/1976/07/04/archi...enate.html

also
https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/ent...ne_V._Debs

Maybe it was his 'rights' as a citizen that were stripped from him. I must admit that I thought it an odd action to strip citizenship from a person .... I always thought it would be something that no nation could quite literally "do". I think it would be impossible now if that nation was a signatory to United Nations treaty on Human Rights.

Follow up question

Anyway, I was prevented from giving another clue concerning my person having met someone in New York who later went on to have an unpleasant experience with an ice pick. Now , who do you think that was?