Henry Adams Thompson, March 23, 1837 (Stormstown, Penn.) – July 8, 1920 (Dayton, Ohio)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1880)
Running mate with nominee: Neal Dow (1804-1897)
Popular vote: 10,364 (0.11%)
Electoral vote: 0/369
The campaign:
In their third run for the presidency the Prohibition Party continued to slowly build their numbers. Except for a lone and small aside supporting women's right to vote, the 1880 Prohibition Party platform had a single-issue anti-alcohol focus.
Although placing a very distant fourth place and falling short of cracking even 1% in any of the 18 states where they were on the ballot, they would eventually endure where other third parties of the day would vanish.
Election history:
1874 - US House of Representatives (Ohio) (Prohibition) special election - defeated
1874 - US House of Representatives (Ohio) (Prohibition) - defeated
1877 - Ohio Governor (Prohibition) - defeated
1900 - US House of Representatives (Ohio) (Union Reform Party) - defeated
1908 - US House of Representatives (Ohio) (Prohibition) - defeated
1910 - Ohio Governor (Prohibition) - defeated
Other occupations: mathematics teacher, author, editor, President of Otterbein University 1872-1886, Director of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society 1885
Buried: Otterbein Cemetery (Westerville, Ohio)
Notes:
Member of the United Brethren Church
Was involved with the abolition movement and the Republican Party prior to joining the Prohibition Party in 1874.
Chairman of the Prohibition National Convention 1876.
Sometimes confused with Indiana prohibitionist Samuel Thompson.
"He regarded campaigning as a way of educating the public rather than a path to power."--Otterbein University webpage, 2019
Some sources list 1887 rather than 1877 for Thompson's first race for Ohio Governor.
