James Monroe Fellure, August 29, 1942 (Salt Rock, W. Va.) -
VP candidate for Independent (2000)
Running mate with nominee: Lowell Jackson Fellure (b. 1931)
Popular vote: ? (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538
The campaign:
Jack Fellure of Hurricane, W. Va. filed with the State of Kansas as a write-in candidate in 2000 for his fourth attempt at the White House. His running-mate was his younger brother Jim Fellure of Bagdad, Fla.
This was not the first instance of brothers sharing a Presidential ticket-- Larry Brant Sargeant had his brother Perry David Sargeant as the VP for the American Freedom Party (1976).
Jim Fellure, a Baptist preacher and anti-pornography activist, once made the news when had to pay an out of court settlement in 1991 and make a public apology to an attorney who represented an X-rated video store. Fellure had been sued for libel when he called the barrister a "crooked lawyer" in the church newsletter.
By the year 2000 Jack Fellure had already become known as a perennial candidate. It appears he entered electoral politics after he retired as an engineer. He had run for President in the Republican primaries since 1988 describing himself as "a total conservative with the Bible as my platform." The King James version to be precise. In 2000 he filed with the FEC as a Republican but did not actually run in the primaries.
Although Fellure was a write-in for President on sporadic ballots in the past, so far as I can ascertain 2000 was the first time he was still in the game in the general election past the primaries with a clearly stated running-mate.
Some of his quotes and views recorded up to the time of the 2000 election:
He was anti-house husband, anti-abortion, pro-capital punishment, for outlawing the Communist Party, for outlawing homosexuality, supported balancing the budget, eliminate gun control, men should have short hair, opposed Rock music, Bush and Clinton have pushed a Marxist-Satanic New World Order agenda.
"We are losing a nation. The nation we knew was based on Christian principles that we are losing faster and faster all the time."
"I believe absolutely in the separation of church and state. I believe in freedom of religion. I merely believe this country must be guided by the Christian principles that made it great."
"We're being destroyed by atheists, Marxists, liberals, queers, liars, draft-dodgers, flag-burners, dope addicts, sex perverts, and anti-Christians."
In 1990 Jack Fellure said, "Sure, I don't have much chance in 1992, but intend to keep running the rest of my life or until I win. I figure I have six Presidential campaigns in me." Fellure's 2020 campaign will be his 9th attempt.
No votes were reported for the Fellure/Fellure ticket in 2000.
Jack Fellure went on to be the Prohibition Party nominee for President in 2012 and we'll catch up with him then.
Election history: none
Other occupations: construction worker, minister, Bible salesman, author, publisher
Notes:
In researching the history of the Fellure brothers I discovered it is possible I am remote relative by
marriage to them dating back in the colonial era.
