Gregory Lee Gilbreth
VP candidate for Independent (1980)
Running mate with nominee: Carmen A. Conde
Popular vote: ? (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538
The campaign:
Carmen A. Conde and Gregory Lee Gilbreth were certified write-in candidates for President in California, 1980. They were both listed as residents of San Luis Obispo, and that information exhausts the sum of their press coverage.
Circumstantial evidence leads to the conjecture that Conde is possibly the same as the 27 year old Bay Area photographer and con artist arrested in 1972. Conde had escaped from the Napa State Hospital and was recaptured after a brief spree with bad checks. Plus, an alternate spelling for Gilbreth could be Gregory Lee Gilbreath, born 1956 in California with ties to San Luis Obispo, who was jailed in Bellingham, Wash. for robbery in the first degree in 1999.
But, as I say, it is just a wild brainstorm guess and not an established fact the two gentlemen comprising the Conde/Gilbreth ticket are the same as the two I mentioned with criminal records. In any event, being residents of the same state would have posed a Constitutional barrier to taking office had they won (as well as Gilbreath's age if he the same as Gilbreth).
Election history: ?
Other occupations: ?
Notes:
Possible Washington State trivia alert.
