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Henry George's run for Mayor of New York on a land-reform platform — the high-water mark of Georgism as an electoral force, finishing ahead of Theodore Roosevelt.

Detroit's mayor proposed a split-rate land value tax to cut homeowner taxes and penalize speculators holding vacant land and parking lots — a prominent modern US campaign.

Alaska's 1976 constitutional creation of a fund from oil-resource rents — and its annual citizen dividend since 1982 — the largest real-world resource-rent dividend.

Lloyd George's 1909 budget proposed land value duties, triggering a constitutional crisis with the House of Lords and the curtailment of its veto power.

Intentional communities founded around 1900 — Fairhope, Alabama and Arden, Delaware — to demonstrate Henry George's single tax in practice. Several still operate today.