September 2 marks the 1839 birth of American economist and reformer Henry George. George is most famous for his 1879 treatise, Progress and Poverty, but made many other contributions, including advocacy of the secret ballot and his able economic policy polemic Protection or Free Trade (1886).
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Henry George properly won the race for mayor of New York City in 1886, but election fraud by the Democratic Party gave the office to Abram Stevens Hewitt.
Modern Georgists often claim that marginalist economic theory was advanced primarily to undermine Georgism; in this claim, Georgists parallel Marxists.