John A. Colvin, January 8, 1841 (Montgomery County, Ohio) - February 15, 1900 (Elk County, Kan.)
VP candidate for Industrial Reform Party (1888)
Running mate with nominee: Albert Redstone (1832-1914)
Popular vote: 0 (0%)
Electoral vote: 0/401
The campaign:
The very brief platform document of the Industrial Reform Party was an echo of the old Greenback Party (a party which basically went extinct later in the 1888 campaign season). The Redstone/Colvin ticket did not seem to register on the radar of the voting public and may not have appeared on any ballots.
Election history: none
Other occupations: farmer
Buried: Moline Cemetery (Moline, Kan.)
Notes:
Also called John Calvin, John Covin.
Lived in Illinois 1859-1870 prior to moving to Moline, Kan.
Grange member
Democrat until 1880, then briefly a Republican, then became a Greenback.
Presbyterian.
Was confined to an asylum 1899-1900 at Ossawatomie, Kan.
Father was an Irish immigrant.
