Where was Alger Hiss born?
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Alger Hiss was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on November 11, 1904. He had a distinguished early career as a U.S. State Department official, but in 1948, he was accused of being a Soviet spy and was convicted of perjury in connection with these allegations. The Hiss case became a flashpoint in the anti-communist fervor of the McCarthy era and remains a controversial episode in American history.
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