A Slice in Third Party Vice-Presidential Time: 1866-1867
Here's some fun historical trivia. Between the dates of the birth of Hiram Warren Johnson (September 2, 1866) to the death of Henry Lee (February 6, 1867) there were 62 Third Party Vice-Presidential Candidates living between the Earth and the sky. By February, 1867 ten of these individuals had already served as VP nominees.
Here's mosaic of this unique group and where they were between September 2, 1866 to February 6, 1867--
Henry Lee (February 4, 1782 – February 6, 1867)
VP candidate for Nullifier Party 1832
Died in Boston February 6, 1867.
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.
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 Freedman's Aid 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
Governor of Georgia in the Conservative/Democratic Party.
Reynell Coates (December 10, 1802 – April 27, 1886)
VP candidate for Native American Party (aka American Party) 1852
Living in Camden, NJ.
Andrew Jackson Donelson (August 25, 1799 – June 26, 1871)
VP candidate for American (Know-Nothing) Party 1856
Lived in Memphis, Tenn.
Joseph Lane (December 14, 1801 – April 19, 1881)
VP candidate for Constitutional Democratic Party 1860
Retired on his farm near Roseburg, Oregon. Baptised as a Catholic (later renounced)
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)
Allied himself with the Radical Republicans.
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 (switched parties from Republican to Democratic)
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
Member of the US House of Representatives (Independent Republican)
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)
Attorney in Norwalk, Ohio.
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). In 1867 became Supt. of Schools in Troy, 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)
Newly married (May 1866) to Joseph Stow in San Francisco and attempts a domestic existence.
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)
Farmer in Douglas County, Kansas
Charles E. Cunningham (July 1, 1823 – April 21, 1895)
VP candidate for Union Labor Party (1888)
A Democrat living in Little Rock, Arkansas.
John Anderson Brooks (June 3, 1836 – February 3, 1897)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1888)
A minister in Winchester, Ky.
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)
In his wandering years.
James Gaven Field (February 24, 1826 – October 12, 1901)
VP candidate for People's Party (1892)
Farmer and attorney in Albemarle County, Va.
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)
On the board of directors of a fire insurance company in New Orleans, La.
Hale Johnson (August 21, 1847 – November 4, 1902)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1896)
Living in Illinois.
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.
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.) (Republican 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)
Newspaperman, probably in the Kansas City area.
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.
William Wesley Cox (February 5, 1865 — October 29, 1948)
VP candidate for Socialist Labor Party (1904)
Small child in Illinois.
Lorenzo Stephen Coffin (April 29, 1823 - January 17, 1915)
VP candidate for United Christian Party (1908)
Farmer near Fort Dodge, Iowa.
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)
Boy in Ohio.
Emil Seidel (December 13, 1864 – June 24, 1947)
VP candidate for Socialist Party of America (1912)
His family moved from Pennsylvania to Wisconsin in 1867.
Hiram Warren Johnson (September 2, 1866 – August 6, 1945)
VP candidate for Progressive Party (aka Bull Moose Party) (1912)
Born in Sacramento, Calif. Sept. 2, 1866.
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)
Boy in Mississippi.
Ira Landrith (March 23, 1865 – October 11, 1941)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1916)
Small boy in Texas.
Maximillian Sebastian Hayes (May 25, 1866 - October 11, 1945)
VP candidate for Farmer-Labor Party (1920)
Infant in Havana, Ohio.
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.
John Cromwell Lincoln (July 17, 1866 - May 24, 1959)
VP candidate for Commonwealth Land Party (aka Single Tax Party) (1924)
Infant in Ohio.
Wesley Henry Bennington (May 18, 1861 - October 30, 1928)
VP candidate for National Party (aka Greenback Party) (1928)
Boy in Ohio.
John Clinton McGee (1863? - March 31, 1936?)
VP candidate for National Progressive Party (aka Progressive Party aka Bull Moose Party) (1928)
Boy in Brazil in a "Confedero" family.
James Hudson Maurer (April 15, 1864 - March 16, 1944)
VP candidate for Socialist Party of America (1928, 1932)
Boy in Reading, Penn.
Frank Stewart Regan (October 3, 1862 – July 25, 1944)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1932)
Boy in Rockford, Ill.
Fun facts of the time slot:
1866 Sept. 21 - H.G. Wells born (d. 1946)
1866 Oct. 6 - Reno Gang commit their first train robbery in Indiana.
1866 Oct. 30 - Jesse James Gang robs bank in Lexington, Mo.
1866 Nov. 5 - In the midterm elections, Republicans win in a landslide.
1866 Nov. 20 - Howard University founded.
1866 Dec. 21 - About 2000 Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors defeat US Army soldiers in the Fetterman Fight.
1867 Jan. 1 - Roebling Bridge between Covington, Ky. and Cincinnati, Ohio formally opens.
1867 Jan. 8 - African-American males can legally vote in Washington, DC.
1867 Jan. 20 - Nathaniel Parker Willis died (b. 1806)
1867 Feb. 6 - Robert Tanner Jackson becomes first African-American to receive a degree in dentistry (Harvard School of Dental Medicine)
