A Slice in Third Party Vice-Presidential Time: 1864-1865
Here's some fun historical trivia. Between the dates of the birth of Emil Seidel (December 13, 1864) to the death of Edward Everett (January 15, 1865) there were 60 Third Party Vice-Presidential Candidates living between the Earth and the sky. By January 1865 eleven of these individuals had already served as VP nominees.
Here's mosaic of this unique group and where they were between December 13, 1864-January 15, 1865--
Henry Lee (February 4, 1782 – February 6, 1867)
VP candidate for Nullifier Party 1832
Retired as a Boston merchant in 1840.
Sidney Rigdon (February 19, 1793 – July 14, 1876)
VP candidate for Reform Party 1844
Considered moving to Attica, Iowa to be in front lines of preparing a new LDS sect, but decided to remain in Friendship, NY.
Charles Francis Adams Sr. (August 18, 1807 – November 21, 1886)
VP candidate for Free Soil Party 1848
United States Envoy to the United Kingdom. Corresponded with Karl Marx. Worked to keep Britain neutral during the US Civil War.
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 Refugee Home Society in Michigan.
George Washington Julian (May 5, 1817 – July 7, 1899)
VP candidate for Free Soil Party 1852
In the US House of Representatives from Indiana as a Republican.
Charles Jones Jenkins (January 6, 1805 – June 14, 1883)
VP candidate for Union Party 1852
Justice on the Supreme Court of Georgia.
Reynell Coates (December 10, 1802 – April 27, 1886)
VP candidate for Native American Party (aka American Party) 1852
Faculty member of the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania.
Andrew Jackson Donelson (August 25, 1799 – June 26, 1871)
VP candidate for American (Know-Nothing) Party 1856
By 1864 two of his sons were killed while in uniform for the CSA (Tenn.)
Joseph Lane (December 14, 1801 – April 19, 1881)
VP candidate for Constitutional Democratic Party 1860
Retired on his farm near Roseburg, Oregon. His son John was soldier in the CSA (Ga.)
Edward Everett (April 11, 1794 – January 15, 1865)
VP candidate for Constitutional Union Party 1860
Served as a Masschusetts Elector for Lincoln. Died Jan. 15, 1865 in Boston.
Samuel McFarland (1795 - February 17, 1868)
VP candidate for Radical Abolitionists Party (aka Liberty Party) 1860
Sheep farmer near Washington, Penn.
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)
Two sons were in the Union Army (Mass.). Douglass was warming up to Lincoln after considerable doubts.
John Quincy Adams II (September 22, 1833 – August 14, 1894)
VP candidate for Straight-Out Democratic Party (1872)
Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (Republican)
Benjamin Gratz Brown (May 28, 1826 – December 13, 1885)
VP candidate for Liberal Republican Party and Democratic Party (1872)
Member of the US Senate (Mo.) (Unconditional Union Party)
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
Collector of internal revenue for the first district of Ohio.
Donald Kirkpatrick (September 9, 1830 - September 19, 1889)
VP candidate for American National Party (aka Anti-Masonic Party aka Anti-Secret Society Party) (1876)
Salt manufacturer in Syracuse, NY area.
Gideon Tabor Stewart (August 7, 1824 - June 10, 1909)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1876)
Publisher of the pro-Union Dubuque Times in Iowa.
Barzillai Jefferson Chambers (December 5, 1817 – September 16, 1895)
VP candidate for Greenback Party 1880
Farmer in Texas. Had served in the CSA Army (Tex.) for about 6 months in 1864.
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)
Member of the US Senate (Kan.) (Republican)
Henry Adams Thompson (March 23, 1837 – July 8, 1920)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1880)
teaching mathematics and natural science at Otterbein University (Westerville, Ohio)
Absolom Madden West (1818 – September 30, 1894)
VP candidate for Greenback Party 1884
President of the Mississippi Central Railroad.
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)
Involved in an independent nationwide lecture circuit for women's rights.
William Daniel (January 24, 1826 – October 13, 1897)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1884)
Trustee of Dickinson College.
John A. Colvin (January 8, 1841 - February 15, 1900)
VP candidate for Industrial Reform Party (1888)
Living in Illinois.
Peter Dinwiddie Wigginton (September 6, 1839 – July 7, 1890)
VP candidate for American Party (1888)
District Attorney of Merced County (Calif.)
William Harrison Thompson Wakefield (December 13, 1834 - July 26, 1913)
VP candidate for United Labor Party (1888)
Union solder wounded three times, and held prisoner for 8 months. Attained rank of Lt. Col.
Charles E. Cunningham (July 1, 1823 – April 21, 1895)
VP candidate for Union Labor Party (1888)
A Democrat living in Johnson County, Mo.
John Anderson Brooks (June 3, 1836 – February 3, 1897)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1888)
A minister who was assisting the CSA in Kentucky, dodging and hiding from Union authorities.
Charles Stuart Welles (February 22, 1848 - February 5, 1927)
VP candidate for Equal Rights Party (1888)
Teenager in Hornellsville, NY?
Charles Horatio Matchett (May 15, 1843 – October 23, 1919)
VP candidate for Socialist Labor Party (1892)
Serving in the US Navy.
James Gaven Field (February 24, 1826 – October 12, 1901)
VP candidate for People's Party (1892)
Was recovering after losing his leg in Oct. 1864 at Cedar Creek as a CSA soldier.
James Britton Buchanan Boone Cranfill (September 12, 1858 – December 28, 1942)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1892)
Boy in Texas.
Simon Bolivar Buckner (April 1, 1823 – January 8, 1914)
VP candidate for National Democratic Party (1896)
CSA Lt. Gen. Buckner was stationed in Shreveport, La.
Hale Johnson (August 21, 1847 – November 4, 1902)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1896)
Soldier in Indiana Infantry.
Matthew Maguire (June 28, 1850 (some sources have 1855) - January 1, 1917)
VP candidate for Socialist Labor Party (1896)
Teenager in the New York City area.
Thomas Edward Watson (September 5, 1856 – September 26, 1922)
VP candidate for People's Party (1896)
Boy in Thomson, Ga., his father was wounded in CSA uniform.
James Haywood Southgate (July 12, 1859 – September 29, 1916)
VP candidate for National Prohibition Party (aka Liberty Party aka Silver Prohibitionists aka Free Silver Prohibitionists aka National Party) (1896)
Boy in North Carolina.
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)
Member of the US House of Representatives (Minn.) (Union Party)
Henry Brewer Metcalf (April 2, 1829 – October 5, 1904)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1900)
A partner in a Boston dry goods importing company.
David Herron Martin (Mar. 28, 1849 - 1933)
VP candidate for United Christian Party (1900)
Teenager in Pittsburgh area.
Valentine Remmel (March 9, 1853 - May 9, 1929)
VP candidate for Socialist Labor Party (1900)
Working in a glass factory in the Pittsburgh area as a child laborer.
Job Harriman (January 15, 1861 – October 26, 1925)
VP candidate for Social Democratic Party (1900)
Boy in Indiana.
Thomas Henry Tibbles (May 22, 1840 – May 14, 1928)
VP candidate for People's Party (aka Populist Party) (1904)
Served as a Union scout and journalist in Missouri and Kansas.
George Washington Carroll (April 1, 1855 - December 14, 1935)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1904)
Boy in Mansfield, La.
Benjamin Hanford (1861 – January 24, 1910)
VP candidate for Socialist Party of America (1904, 1908)
A boy in either Ohio or Iowa.
Lorenzo Stephen Coffin (April 29, 1823 - January 17, 1915)
VP candidate for United Christian Party (1908)
Farmer near Fort Dodge, Iowa. Served in the Iowa Infantry earlier in the Civil War.
Samuel Wardell Williams (February 7, 1851 – August 5, 1913)
VP candidate for People's Party (aka Populist Party) (1908)
Teenager in Mount Carmel, Ill.
John Temple Graves (November 9, 1856 – August 8, 1925)
VP candidate for Independence Party (aka Independence League aka National Independence League) (1908)
Boy in South Carolina.
Aaron Sherman Watkins (November 29, 1863 – February 9, 1941)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1908, 1912)
Small child in Ohio.
Emil Seidel (December 13, 1864 – June 24, 1947)
VP candidate for Socialist Party of America (1912)
Born Dec. 13, 1864 in Ashland, Penn., a son of German immigrants.
John Milliken Parker, Sr. (March 16, 1863 – May 20, 1939)
VP candidate for Progressive Party (aka Bull Moose Party aka Middle-Road Progressive Party) (1916)
Small child in Mississippi.
Leander Lycurgus Pickett (February 8, 1859 - May 9, 1928)
VP candidate for American Party (aka Ku Klux Party aka Ku Klux Klan Party) (1924)
Boy in Mississippi?
Marie Caroline Brehm (June 30, 1859 – January 21, 1926)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1924)
Girl in Ohio.
Wesley Henry Bennington (May 18, 1861 - October 30, 1928)
VP candidate for National Party (aka Greenback Party) (1928)
Child in Ohio, His father died in May 1864.
John Clinton McGee (1863? - March 31, 1936?)
VP candidate for National Progressive Party (aka Progressive Party aka Bull Moose Party) (1928)
Small child in Louisiana.
James Hudson Maurer (April 15, 1864 - March 16, 1944)
VP candidate for Socialist Party of America (1928, 1932)
Small child in Reading, Penn.
Frank Stewart Regan (October 3, 1862 – July 25, 1944)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1932)
Small child in Rockford, Ill.
Fun facts of the time slot:
1864 Dec. 13 - Union victory at Second Battle of Fort McAllister (Ga.)
1864 Dec. 15-16 - Union victory at Battle of Nashville.
1864 Dec. 17-18 - Union victory at Battle of Marion (Va.)
1864 Dec. 19 - Confederate victory at Battle of Altamaha Bridge (Ga.)
1864 Dec. 20-21 - Union victory at Second Battle of Saltville (Va.)
1864 Dec. 21 - Sherman's March to the Sea ends in Savannah, Ga.
1864 Dec. 23-27 - Confederate victory at First Battle of Fort Fisher (NC)
1864 Dec. 25 - Confederate victory at Battle of Anthony's Hill (Tenn.)
1864 Dec. 31 - George M. Dallas died (b. 1792)
1865 Jan. 13-15 - Union victory at Second Battle of Fort Fisher (NC)
