Granville Booker Leeke, February 22, 1889 (Philadelphia, Penn.) - May 29, 1955 (Niles, Mich.)
VP candidate for Greenback Party (1948)
Running mate with nominee: John G. Scott (1879-1953)
Popular vote: 6 (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/531
The campaign:
The Party nominated John G. Scott who was a retired college professor raising bees in upstate NY and Granville B. Leeke of South Bend, Ind. by mail-vote. Scott indicated that aside from voting for himself, he planned to vote Republican in all other races.
Scott described the Greenback Party as: "Neither right, left nor middle but all three in one ... It is a conservative party, democratically-managed, with a progressive platform and liberal outlook."
Although not on the ballot in any states, six write-in votes were recorded from California.
Election history:
1944 - US House of Representatives (Ind.) (Prohibition Party) - defeated
Other occupations: maintenance man in a lathe factory, farmer, minister (Church of God)
Buried: Mount Pleasant Cemetery (South Bend, Ind.)
Notes:
Moved to Indiana ca. 1913.
