A Slice in Third Party Vice-Presidential Time: 1885
Here's some fun historical trivia. Between the dates of the birth of Edward Kirby Meador (November 6, 1885) to the death of Benjamin Gratz Brown (December 13, 1885) there were 86 Third Party Vice-Presidential Candidates living between the Earth and the sky. By December 1885 seventeen of these individuals had already served as VP nominees.
Here's mosaic of this unique group and where they were between November 6 to December 13, 1885--
Charles Francis Adams Sr. (August 18, 1807 – November 21, 1886)
VP candidate for Free Soil Party 1848
Retired from public life as he was losing his mental abilities. His daughter-in-law Marian "Clover" Adams committed suicide by ingesting cyanide Dec. 6, 1885.
Charles C. Foote (March 30, 1811 – May 3, 1891)
VP candidate for National Liberty Party 1848
Presbyterian minister in Detroit, active with the Prohibition Party.
George Washington Julian (May 5, 1817 – July 7, 1899)
VP candidate for Free Soil Party 1852
Appointed Surveyor General of New Mexico Territory by President Cleveland in 1885.
Reynell Coates (December 10, 1802 – April 27, 1886)
VP candidate for Native American Party (aka American Party) 1852
Living in Camden, NJ.
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)
On the lecture circuit in the United States.
John Quincy Adams II (September 22, 1833 – August 14, 1894)
VP candidate for Straight-Out Democratic Party (1872)
Attorney in Quincy, Mass. Had decided to retire from seeking public office.
Benjamin Gratz Brown (May 28, 1826 – December 13, 1885)
VP candidate for Liberal Republican Party and Democratic Party (1872)
Died December 13, 1885 in Kirkwood, Mo.
John Russell (September 20, 1822 - November 4, 1912)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1872)
Methodist minister, living in Marquette, Mich. Addressed 200 people at a prohibition conference in Detroit Dec. 3, 1885.
Samuel Fenton Cary (February 18, 1814 – September 29, 1900)
VP candidate for Greenback Party 1876
Attorney in Cincinnati and active on the lecture circuits.
Donald Kirkpatrick (September 9, 1830 - September 19, 1889)
VP candidate for American National Party (aka Anti-Masonic Party aka Anti-Secret Society Party) (1876)
Living in Syracuse, NY running a salt factory.
Gideon Tabor Stewart (August 7, 1824 - June 10, 1909)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1876)
Attorney in Norwalk, Ohio. His book, Liberty and Union, and The Conflict of Liberty, was published in 1885.
Barzillai Jefferson Chambers (December 5, 1817 – September 16, 1895)
VP candidate for Greenback Party 1880
Farmer in Cleburne, Texas and was easing away from political activity.
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 Washington, DC.
Henry Adams Thompson (March 23, 1837 – July 8, 1920)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1880)
President of Otterbein University and Director of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society in 1885.
Absolom Madden West (1818 – September 30, 1894)
VP candidate for Greenback Party 1884
Living in Holly Springs, 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)
Feminist activist in the Bay Area, Calif.
William Daniel (January 24, 1826 – October 13, 1897)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1884)
President of the Maryland Temperance Alliance.
John A. Colvin (January 8, 1841 - February 15, 1900)
VP candidate for Industrial Reform Party (1888)
Farmer in Wild Cat Township, Kan.
Peter Dinwiddie Wigginton (September 6, 1839 – July 7, 1890)
VP candidate for American Party (1888)
Attorney in San Francisco.
William Harrison Thompson Wakefield (December 13, 1834 - July 26, 1913)
VP candidate for United Labor Party (1888)
Newspaper editor in Kansas.
Charles E. Cunningham (July 1, 1823 – April 21, 1895)
VP candidate for Union Labor Party (1888)
Farmer in Little Rock, Arkansas.
John Anderson Brooks (June 3, 1836 – February 3, 1897)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1888)
A minister in Missouri. President of the newly organized Prohibition State Alliance.
Charles Stuart Welles (February 22, 1848 - February 5, 1927)
VP candidate for Equal Rights Party (1888)
Physician in New York City.
Charles Horatio Matchett (May 15, 1843 – October 23, 1919)
VP candidate for Socialist Labor Party (1892)
Living in New York City?
James Gaven Field (February 24, 1826 – October 12, 1901)
VP candidate for People's Party (1892)
Had decided not to seek a seat in the US Senate (Va.) as a Democrat.
James Britton Buchanan Boone Cranfill (September 12, 1858 – December 28, 1942)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1892)
Livng in Gatesville, Tex. and publishing a weekly paper The Advance.
Simon Bolivar Buckner (April 1, 1823 – January 8, 1914)
VP candidate for National Democratic Party (1896)
Newly remarried and living at the family estate in Munfordville, Ky., restoring the place after neglect during the Civil War.
Hale Johnson (August 21, 1847 – November 4, 1902)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1896)
Attorney in Newton, Illinois.
Matthew Maguire (June 28, 1850 (some sources have 1855) - January 1, 1917)
VP candidate for Socialist Labor Party (1896)
Living in New York City?
Thomas Edward Watson (September 5, 1856 – September 26, 1922)
VP candidate for People's Party (1896)
Attorney in Georgia.
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)
Banker and insurance agent in Durham, NC. Joined the Prohibition Party in 1885.
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)
Living in Minnesota.
Henry Brewer Metcalf (April 2, 1829 – October 5, 1904)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1900)
Serving in the Rhode Island Senate as a Republican.
David Herron Martin (Mar. 28, 1849 - 1933)
VP candidate for United Christian Party (1900)
Editor living in Bellevue, Penn.
Valentine Remmel (March 9, 1853 - May 9, 1929)
VP candidate for Socialist Labor Party (1900)
Working in a glass factory in the Pittsburgh area.
Job Harriman (January 15, 1861 – October 26, 1925)
VP candidate for Social Democratic Party (1900)
After attending Butler University he went into the ministry.
Thomas Henry Tibbles (May 22, 1840 – May 14, 1928)
VP candidate for People's Party (aka Populist Party) (1904)
Wrote "On the Need for Civil Law Among the Indians"
George Washington Carroll (April 1, 1855 - December 14, 1935)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1904)
Foreman in his father's saw mill company in Beaumont, Tex.
Benjamin Hanford (1861 – January 24, 1910)
VP candidate for Socialist Party of America (1904, 1908)
Printer in Chicago.
William Wesley Cox (February 5, 1865 — October 29, 1948)
VP candidate for Socialist Labor Party (1904)
Began work as a brickmaker.
William C. Payne, b. 1867
VP candidate for National Negro Liberty Party (aka National Liberty Party aka Liberty Party aka Civil Liberty Party) (1904)
Teenage laborer on Tappahannock, Va.?
Albert A. King (September 8, 1869 - February 29, 1908)
VP candidate for Continental Party (1904)
Teenager in Missouri?
Lorenzo Stephen Coffin (April 29, 1823 - January 17, 1915)
VP candidate for United Christian Party (1908)
Farmer near Fort Dodge, Iowa. Member of the Iowa Railroad Commission.
Samuel Wardell Williams (February 7, 1851 – August 5, 1913)
VP candidate for People's Party (aka Populist Party) (1908)
In the Indiana House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic Party.
John Temple Graves (November 9, 1856 – August 8, 1925)
VP candidate for Independence Party (aka Independence League aka National Independence League) (1908)
Associate editor of the Jacksonville Union, Florida.
Aaron Sherman Watkins (November 29, 1863 – February 9, 1941)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1908, 1912)
Student at Ohio Northern University.
Emil Seidel (December 13, 1864 – June 24, 1947)
VP candidate for Socialist Party of America (1912)
Living in Milwaukee, Wis.
Hiram Warren Johnson (September 2, 1866 – August 6, 1945)
VP candidate for Progressive Party (aka Bull Moose Party) (1912)
Teenager in Sacramento, Calif.
August Gillhaus (June, 1867 - May 4, 1932)
VP candidate for Socialist Labor Party (aka Industrial Labor Party) (1912, 1920)
Teenager in the New York City area.
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)
Attending Eastman Business College in Poughkeepsie, NY?
Ira Landrith (March 23, 1865 – October 11, 1941)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1916)
Living in Texas.
George Ross Kirkpatrick (February 24, 1867 – March 23, 1937)
VP candidate for Socialist Party of America (1916)
Student at Allegheny College Preparatory School?
Caleb Leroy Harrison (September 20, 1879 - June 8, 1938)
VP candidate for Socialist Labor Party (1916)
Boy in Pennsylvania.
Maximillian Sebastian Hayes (May 25, 1866 - October 11, 1945)
VP candidate for Farmer-Labor Party (1920)
Boy in Cleveland, Ohio.
Seymour Stedman (July 4, 1871 – July 9, 1948)
VP candidate for Socialist Party of America (1920)
Child laborer in Chicago foundry.
Richard Clarence Barnum (July, 1879 - Aug. 27, 1961)
VP candidate for Single Tax Party (aka National Single Tax Party) (1920)
Boy in Ohio.
William Jervis Hough
VP candidate for American Party (1920)
He was busy being mysterious, even as a little kid.
David Leigh Colvin (January 28, 1880 – September 7, 1959)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1920)
Boy in 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)
Denied reappointment to the Methodist ministry in 1885 over his strong feelings involving the method of baptism (he was a sprinkler, not an immerser) and then became involved with the Holiness Movement.
Marie Caroline Brehm (June 30, 1859 – January 21, 1926)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1924)
Art teacher in Olney, Ill.
John Cromwell Lincoln (July 17, 1866 - May 24, 1959)
VP candidate for Commonwealth Land Party (aka Single Tax Party) (1924)
Teenager in Ohio.
Burton Kendall Wheeler (February 27, 1882 – January 6, 1975)
VP candidate for Progressive Party (aka Independent Progressive Party) (1924)
Boy in Massachusetts.
Verne La Rue Reynolds (1884 - September 16, 1959)
VP candidate for Socialist Labor Party (1924)
Boy in Kansas?
Wesley Henry Bennington (May 18, 1861 - October 30, 1928)
VP candidate for National Party (aka Greenback Party) (1928)
Attorney in Topeka, Kan.?
John Clinton McGee (June, 1863 - March 31, 1936?)
VP candidate for National Progressive Party (aka Progressive Party aka Bull Moose Party) (1928)
Part of a Wild West show?
Simon Peter William Drew (August 6, 1870 - December 12, 1934)
VP candidate for Interracial Independent Political Party (aka National Interracial Party) (1928)
Teenager in Margarettsville, NC?
James Hudson Maurer (April 15, 1864 - March 16, 1944)
VP candidate for Socialist Party of America (1928, 1932)
Active with the Knights of Labor in Reading, Penn.
James Arthur Edgerton (January 30, 1869 - December 3, 1938)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1928)
Teenager in Ohio.
Jeremiah Daniel Crowley (May 2, 1875 - September 23, 1960)
VP candidate for Socialist Labor Party (1928)
Boy in Onandaga, NY.
Frank Stewart Regan (October 3, 1862 – July 25, 1944)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1932)
Living in Rockford, Ill.
Julius J. Reiter (July 4, 1869 - November 29, 1940)
VP candidate for Farmer-Labor Party (1932)
Teenager in Minnesota.
Otis Lee Spurgeon (April 10, 1880 - April 5, 1942)
VP candidate for Liberty Party (Webb Faction) (aka New Liberty Party aka Liberal Party aka Liberty and Unity Party) (1932)
Boy in Boone, Iowa.
Florence Garvin (February 27, 1876 - July 10, 1968)
VP candidate for National Party (aka Independent Party aka Greenback Party) (1932)
VP candidate for National Greenback Party (1936)
Girl in Rhode Island.
Francis Benjamin Hemenway (June 21, 1885 - July 22, 1949)
VP candidate for Liberty Party (1932)
Infant in Iowa.
George A. Nelson (November 15, 1873 – May 4, 1962)
VP candidate for Socialist Party of America (1936)
Boy in Wisconsin.
Claude Alonzo Watson (June 26, 1885 – January 3, 1978)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (aka National Prohibition Party aka Commonwealth Party) (1936)
Infant in Michigan
James Elmer Yates (March 12, 1874 - April 7, 1954)
VP candidate for Greenback Party (aka National Greenback Party) (1940)
Boy in Missouri?
Edgar Vaughn Moorman (January 21, 1878 - August 8, 1942)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (aka New Prohibition Party) (1940)
Boy in Kentucky.
Frank Jefferies (Aug. 4, 1874 - June 14, 1947)
VP candidate for Greenback Party (1944)
Boy in Indiana.
Andrew Nathan Johnson (September 21, 1875 - August 30, 1959)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1944)
Boy in Kentucky.
Harry A. Romer (November 1, 1884 - January 22, 1965)
VP candidate for America First Party (1944)
VP candidate for Christian Nationalist Party (1948)
Infant in Ohio
Charlotta Amanda Spears Bass (February 14, 1874 - April 12, 1969)
VP candidate for Progressive Party (1952)
Girl in South Carolina.
Enoch Arden Holtwick (January 3, 1881- March 28, 1972)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1952)
Boy in Missouri?
Edward Kirby Meador (November 6, 1885 - December 25, 1981)
VP candidate for Greenback Party (1956, 1960)
Born November 6, 1885 in Chamblissburg, Va.
Edwin Maurice Cooper (May 12, 1885 - February 26, 1971)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1956)
Infant in Nebraska
John Orville Hopkins (July 19, 1876 - May 31, 1973)
VP candidate for Universal Party (1964)
Boy in Minnesota
Fun facts of the time slot:
1885 Nov. 11 - George S. Patton born (d. 1945)
1885 Nov. 25 - Vice-President Thomas Andrews Hendricks (b. 1819) dies in office.
1885 Dec. 1 - The soft drink Dr. Pepper is served for the first time.
1885 Dec. 3 - News accounts report sightings of savage "Wild Man" roaming the beaches of Long Island, NY.
