What union leader and socialist candidate ran for president 5 times, getting nearly a million votes in 1912.

Eugene Victor Debs

Eugene Victor Debs was born of French immigrant parents in Indiana and became an active labor organizer 1870s. He created the American Railway Union (ARU), an industrial union (Industrial Workers of the World/IWW) in 1893. For five times, he became a candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States from 1900 to 1920.

islamic religious leaders have traditionally been people who, as part of the clerisy, mosque, or government, performed a prominent role within their community or nation. however, in the modern contexts of muslims minorities in non-muslim countries as well as secularised muslim states like turkey, indonesia and bangladesh, religious leadership may take a variety of non-formal shapes.

compared to religious leaders/clerics of the other abrahamic faiths, islamic clergy are said to resemble rabbis and not priests. unlike catholic priests they do not "serve as intermediaries between mankind and god",[1] have "process of ordination",[2] or "sacramental functions",[1] but instead serve as "exemplars, teachers, judges, and community leaders," providing religious rules to the pious on "even the most minor and private" matters.[1]