Florence Garvin, February 27, 1876 (Middletown, Conn.) - July 10, 1968 (Providence, RI)
VP candidate for National Party (aka Independent Party aka Greenback Party) (1932)
VP candidate for National Greenback Party (1936)
Running mate with nominee (1932, 1936): John Zahnd (1877-1961)
Popular vote (1932): 1645 (0.00%)
Popular vote (1936): 0 (0.00%)
Electoral vote (1932): 0/531
Electoral vote (1936): 0/531
The campaign (1932):
Ex-leader of his own religion John Zahnd chose not to run in 1932 as he had in 1924 and 1928, but sometimes our best plans go awry.
Seymour E. Allen of Springfield, Mass. was nominated for President but he withdrew once he learned more about the anti-union record of the National Party.
The National Party then nominated 72-year old George Wilson, a newsstand and drugstore operator in Vineland, NJ as their nominee. Wilson had been connected with the People's Party and was a member of Coxey's Army in 1894. 62-year old J.A. Parker of Blytheville, Penn. was picked as his running mate.
Wilson said he would only accept the nomination on the condition the National Party merged with the Farmer-Labor (which was home to Jacob Coxey in 1932) and Liberty parties. Zahnd, who ran his party with an iron fist, would have none of that, so Wilson was out. As Fate would have it, the National Party and Liberty Party would indeed merge on the Indiana ballot a month or two later.
With time getting short, Zahnd himself stepped up to the nomination at some point in late August or early September. Florence Garvin of Rhode Island was selected as his running mate.
Indiana was the only state where the Zahnd/Garvin could be found on a ballot.
The campaign (1936):
In 1936 the Zahnd/Garvin ticket ran again, this time under the banner of the National Greenback Party. They were not on the ballot in any states.
Election history:
1924 - US House of Representatives (Del.) (Prohibition Party) - defeated
Other occupations: author, suffragette, Vice-President of the Women's National Single Tax League
Buried: Swan Point Cemetery (Providence, RI)
Notes:
Daughter of Lucius Garvin, Gov. of Rhode Island 1903-1905.
Buried in the same cemetery as Ambrose Burnside, Nelson Aldrich, Thomas Wilson Dorr, H.P. Lovecraft.
