AUGUST CLAESSENS

• Born: June 17, 1885
• Died: December 9, 1954
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August "Gus" Claessens (June 17, 1885 – December 9, 1954) was a Swiss-born American socialist politician, best known as one of the five New York Assemblymen expelled from that body during the First Red Scare for their membership in the Socialist Party of America.