A Slice in Third Party Vice-Presidential Time: 1849
Here's some fun historical trivia. Between the dates of the birth of David Herron Martin (Mar. 28, 1849) to the death of Thomas Earle (July 14, 1849) there were 43 Third Party Vice-Presidential Candidates living between the Earth and the sky. By July 1849 only six of these individuals had already served as VP nominees.
Here's mosaic of this unique group and where they were between Mar. 28, 1849-July 14, 1849--
Henry Lee (February 4, 1782 – February 6, 1867)
VP candidate for Nullifier Party 1832
Retired as a Boston merchant in 1840.
Amos Ellmaker (February 2, 1787 - November 28, 1851)
VP candidate for Anti-Masonic Party 1832
Retired from politics and practiced law in Lancaster, Penn.
Thomas Earle (April 21, 1796 – July 14, 1849)
VP candidate for Liberty Party 1840
Died July 14, 1849 in Willow Grove, Penn., age 53.
Sidney Rigdon (February 19, 1793 – July 14, 1876)
VP candidate for Reform Party 1844
After the 1847 collapse of his Mormon splinter group the Church of Jesus Christ of the Children of Zion, Rigdon went to live with relatives in upstate New York.
Charles Francis Adams Sr. (August 18, 1807 – November 21, 1886)
VP candidate for Free Soil Party 1848
Upon the death of his father John Quincy Adams in 1848, Charles moved to the Vassall-Adams House aka Peacefield aka The Old House in Quincy, Mass.
Charles C. Foote (March 30, 1811 – May 3, 1891)
VP candidate for National Liberty Party 1848
Working as a Presbyterian minister and involved with the underground railroad in Michigan.
George Washington Julian (May 5, 1817 – July 7, 1899)
VP candidate for Free Soil Party 1852
Serving in the US House of Representatives as a Congressman from Indiana in the Free Soil Party.
Charles Jones Jenkins (January 6, 1805 – June 14, 1883)
VP candidate for Union Party 1852
Member of the Georgia House of Representatives as a Whig.
Reynell Coates (December 10, 1802 – April 27, 1886)
VP candidate for Native American Party (aka American Party) 1852
Editor of a serial, Leaflets of Memory, and he had accepted work by Edgar Allan Poe.
John Anthony Quitman (September 1, 1798 (or 1799) – July 17, 1858)
VP candidate for Southern Rights Party 1852
Working as a Democrat to be elected Governor of Mississippi, which he did win in Nov. 1849.
Samuel M. Bell
VP candidate for Liberty Party 1852
The mysterious Mr. Bell was involved in abolition activities in what is now West Virginia.
Andrew Jackson Donelson (August 25, 1799 – June 26, 1871)
VP candidate for American (Know-Nothing) Party 1856
United States Envoy to Prussia
Joseph Lane (December 14, 1801 – April 19, 1881)
VP candidate for Constitutional Democratic Party 1860
Governor of Oregon Territory.
Edward Everett (April 11, 1794 – January 15, 1865)
VP candidate for Constitutional Union Party 1860
Served as an aide to Sec. of State Daniel Webster.
Samuel McFarland (1795 - February 17, 1868)
VP candidate for Radical Abolitionists Party (aka Liberty Party) 1860
Sheep farmer near Washington, Penn. Involved with the underground railroad.
Frederick Douglass (ca. February 1818 – February 20, 1895)
VP candidate for Equal Rights Party (aka People's Party aka Cosmo-Political Party aka National Radical Reformers) (1872)
Attacked by a gang in New York City on May 5.
John Quincy Adams II (September 22, 1833 – August 14, 1894)
VP candidate for Straight-Out Democratic Party (1872)
He was a teenager in Massachusetts.
Benjamin Gratz Brown (May 28, 1826 – December 13, 1885)
VP candidate for Liberal Republican Party and Democratic Party (1872)
He passed the bar exam, moved to St. Louis to work in the law firm of his cousins, Montgomery and Frank Blair.
John Russell (September 20, 1822 - November 4, 1912)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1872)
Methodist minister in Michigan
Samuel Fenton Cary (February 18, 1814 – September 29, 1900)
VP candidate for Greenback Party 1876
Married Lida Stillwell on May 29.
Donald Kirkpatrick (September 9, 1830 - September 19, 1889)
VP candidate for American National Party (aka Anti-Masonic Party aka Anti-Secret Society Party) (1876)
Teenager in Syracuse, NY.
Gideon Tabor Stewart (August 7, 1824 - June 10, 1909)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1876)
Attorney in Norwalk, Ohio.
Barzillai Jefferson Chambers (December 5, 1817 – September 16, 1895)
VP candidate for Greenback Party 1880
Surveyor in Texas.
Samuel Clarke Pomeroy (January 3, 1816 – August 27, 1891)
VP candidate for Anti-Masonic Party (aka American Party aka Anti-Secret Society Party aka National American Party) (1880)
Living in Southampton, Mass.
Henry Adams Thompson (March 23, 1837 – July 8, 1920)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1880)
A boy in Stormstown, Penn.
Absolom Madden West (1818 – September 30, 1894)
VP candidate for Greenback Party 1884
A "planter" in Holmes County, Miss.
Marietta Lizzie Bell Stow (1830? – December 27, 1902)
VP candidate for Equal Rights Party (aka National Equal Rights Party) (1884)
VP candidate for National Woman Suffragists' Party (1892)
Probably a student at Oberlin.
William Daniel (January 24, 1826 – October 13, 1897)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1884)
Studied law in the office of William S. Waters, Somerset County, Md.
John A. Colvin (January 8, 1841 - February 15, 1900)
VP candidate for Industrial Reform Party (1888)
A child in Montgomery County, Ohio.
Peter Dinwiddie Wigginton (September 6, 1839 – July 7, 1890)
VP candidate for American Party (1888)
A boy in Wisconsin.
William Harrison Thompson Wakefield (December 13, 1834 - July 26, 1913)
VP candidate for United Labor Party (1888)
Teenager attending school probably in Plattville, Wis..
Charles E. Cunningham (July 1, 1823 – April 21, 1895)
VP candidate for Union Labor Party (1888)
Married Elizabeth Jones, moved to California and engaged in freighting and mining.
John Anderson Brooks (June 3, 1836 – February 3, 1897)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1888)
Teenager on a farm in Mason County, Kentucky that had slaves.
Charles Stuart Welles (February 22, 1848 - February 5, 1927)
VP candidate for Equal Rights Party (1888)
Small child possibly in London, Ontario.
Charles Horatio Matchett (May 15, 1843 – October 23, 1919)
VP candidate for Socialist Labor Party (1892)
Child in Brighton, Mass.
James Gaven Field (February 24, 1826 – October 12, 1901)
VP candidate for People's Party (1892)
Worked as a clerk in the pay department of the U.S. Army, stationed in California.
Simon Bolivar Buckner (April 1, 1823 – January 8, 1914)
VP candidate for National Democratic Party (1896)
Now a veteran of the US-Mexican War, he was teaching military tactics at West Point.
Hale Johnson (August 21, 1847 – November 4, 1902)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1896)
Small child in Indiana.
Ignatius Loyola Donnelly (November 3, 1831 – January 1, 1901)
VP candidate for People's Party (aka Populist Party aka Middle of the Road Populists) (1900)
Graduated from Central High School in Philadelphia
Henry Brewer Metcalf (April 2, 1829 – October 5, 1904)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1900)
Apprentice to a dry goods importing company.
David Herron Martin (Mar. 28, 1849 - 1933)
VP candidate for United Christian Party (1900)
Born in Pittsburgh, Mar. 28, 1849.
Thomas Henry Tibbles (May 22, 1840 – May 14, 1928)
VP candidate for People's Party (aka Populist Party) (1904)
Child in Illinois.
Lorenzo Stephen Coffin (April 29, 1823 - January 17, 1915)
VP candidate for United Christian Party (1908)
Teacher at Geauga Seminary, Ohio. Future President James A. Garfield is one of his students.
Fun facts of the time slot:
1849 - California is filled with approximately 90,000 people during the Gold Rush.
1849 - Mountain Grove Cemetery in Bridgeport, Connecticut, designed by P.T. Barnum, is created.
1849 March 29 - Henry "Box" Brown escapes slavery in Virginia by having himself mailed in a crate. 27 Hours later he was delivered to abolitionists in Philadelphia.
1849 April 4 - The New York Knickerbockers become the first baseball team to wear uniforms
1849 May 3 - New Orleans floods when a levee breaks
1849 May 10 - Astor Place Riot in New York leaves over two dozen dead. The backdrop was a performance of MacBeth.
1849 May 22 - Abraham Lincoln is issued Patent No. 6,469 for "Buoying Vessels Over Shoals"
1849 June 15 - James K. Polk died (b. 1795)
1849 July 4 - Most violent day of the Tutt-Everett War in Arkansas
1849 July 12 - Dolley Madison died (b. 1768)
