Sunday, October 31, 2021

Fun Third Party VP Facts Up to 2016 pt. 9

Fun Third Party VP Facts Up to 2016 pt. 9 

Presidential candidate died before the election, leaving fate of the running mate in doubt

Sidney Rigdon (Reform), Joseph Smith was murdered on June 27, 1844
Charles Jones Jenkins (Union), Daniel Webster died 9 days before the election, 1852
Abram Wolfson (American Vegetarian), Symon Gould died Nov. 24, 1963
Benjamin McLane Spock (National Conference for a New Politics), Martin Luther King was assassinated Apr. 4, 1968
James Roosevelt II (Democrats of America Inc.), Walter Ralph Buchanan died Mar. 22, 1988
Luke Skywalker (Sith/Independent), Darth Vader died in 1983 but was running in 2000, Ob-Wan Kenobi died in 1977 but has been a perennial candidate since 2008
Howard Leroy Lydick (Prohibition-Dodge Faction), Earl Dodge died Nov. 7, 2007  
George Brinton McClellan (Reincarnation) (Mythical Majestic Midgardian), Lincoln was already dead, 1865
Christopher R. Jones (Non Affiliated), David Michael Crosby died Sept. 17, 2012
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (Independent), Reagan was already dead, 2004
Marjorie J. Kern-Marshall (Bully), Satchel died Mar. 2015
Christopher Michael Padgett (Independent), Jesus was crucified ca AD 30/33
Kenneth Bone (Independent), Harambe died in May 2016
Daryl Dixon (Independent), Rick Grimes died June 5, 2019
Elijah Craig (Independent), both Craig and Evan Williams had been dead since 1808 and 1810
Peapod the Pocket Squirrel (Spirit), Bob Ross died in 1995 and Peapod probably before that
Robert Monroe Singleton (Peace), Monroe Singleton died Apr. 28, 2016

Presidential candidate died or vanished after election but before the Electoral College, leaving fate of the running mate in doubt

Benjamin Gratz Brown (Liberal Republican), Horace Greeley died Nov. 29, 1872
Richard Joseph Daley (Youth International), the ultimate fate of Pigasus (1968) is unknown to history
Calvin Preston Winslow Jr. (Peace and Freedom), Eldridge Cleaver fled to Cuba (1968)
Peggy Terry (Peace and Freedom), Eldridge Cleaver fled to Cuba (1968)
Lawrence D. Hochman (New Politics), Eldridge Cleaver fled to Cuba (1968)
Douglas Fitzgerald Dowd (Peace and Freedom), Eldridge Cleaver fled to Cuba (1968)
Judith Hollander Mage (Peace and Freedom), Eldridge Cleaver fled to Cuba (1968)
Rodolfo Gonzales (Peace and Freedom), Eldridge Cleaver fled to Cuba (1968)
William Buford McKenzie (Theocratic), Homer Tomlinson died Dec. 4, 1968
Billy Earl Gilmore (People's), Gordon H. Adkins had fled to Mexico, 1986/1987
Inertia (Independent), Giant Meteor 2016 never materialized.
Michael Morton (Independent), Dana Brown died Nov. 10, 2016
Kurt Leonard Schnupp (Independent), Dana Brown died Nov. 10, 2016
Sarah Louise Palin (Independent), Barry Lester Johnson died Nov. 15, 2016

Would have assumed the Presidency upon the death of the President if they had been elected

Amos Ellmaker upon the death of William Wirt (Anti-Masonic) 1834
John Anthony Quitman upon the death of George M. Troup (Southern Rights) 1856
Samuel Clarke Pomeroy upon the death of John W. Phelps (Anti-Masonic) Feb. 2, 1885
John Anderson Brooks upon the death of Clinton B. Fisk (Prohibition) in 1890
Simon Bolivar Buckner upon the death of John M. Palmer (National Democratic) in 1900
Samuel Thorne Nicholson upon the death of Seth H. Ellis (Union Reform) in 1904
David Herron Martin upon the death of Jonah Fitz Randolph Leonard (United Christian), Jan. 15, 1905
Ira Landrith upon the death of Frank Hanly (Prohibition), 1920
John Milliken Parker Sr. upon the death of Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive), 1919
Burton Kendall Wheeler upon the death of Robert M. La Follette (Progressive), 1925
Verne La Rue Reynolds upon the death of Frank T. Johns (Socialist Labor), 1928
John Cromwell Lincoln upon the death of William J. Wallace (Commonwealth Land), 1927
Francis Benjamin Hemenway upon the death of William "Coin" Harvey (Liberty), 1936
Burr McCloskey upon the death of William Langer (Pioneer), 1959
Edward Kirby Meador upon the death of Whitney Hart Slocomb (Greenback), 1961
Anna Marie Yezo upon the death of Henry B. Krajewski (Poor Man's), 1966
Christopher Gian-Cursio upn the death of Symon Gould (American Vegetarian), 1963
Ralph Milton Raper upon the death of Connie Watts (Front Porch), 1964
Edward Joseph Silverman upon the death of C. Benton Coiner (Conservative Party of Virginia), 1963
Ralph Nader upon the death of Regis Jeremiah Anthony Goldbach (Independent) on Jan. 2, 1979
Richard Milhous Nixon upon the death of Elvis Presley (Memphis American) on Aug. 16, 1977, however according to the 22nd Amendment, Nixon would have been ineligible to assume the office. Probably.
Marian Ruck Jackson upon the death of Frank W. Shelton (American) on Nov. 28, 1983
Frank Lyle Varnum upon the death of Percy L. Greaves Jr. (American) on Aug. 13, 1984
Katherine M. Garry upon the death of Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick (Independent) on Aug. 16, 1986
Boomer "Red" Wolf upon the death of Woofer Coyote (Independent) in July 1985.
William Samuel Pick upon the death of Tommy Macaione (Mutual Happiness Society), Oct. 28, 1992.
Cornelius Alexander McGillicuddy III upon the death of Pat Paulsen (United We Sit), Apr. 24, 1997.
James Bell Yager's Mystery Running-Mate upon the death of James Bell Yager (Independent), Feb. 12, 1998.
Ann Northrop upon the death of Steve Michael (AIDS Cure), May 25, 1998.
Robert Leo Beck upon the death of Louie Gene Youngkeit (Unaffiliated), May 12, 2003.
Bupkes upon the death of Diddley Squat V (Hamster), Oct. 19, 2006.
Howard Leroy Lydick upon the death of Earl Dodge (Prohibition), Nov. 7, 2007.
Leroy John Pletton upon the death of Gene C. Amondson (Prohibition), July 20, 2009.
Zero upon the death of Zoey (Hamster), June 4, 2010.
Frank Edward McEnulty upon the death of Theodore C. Weill (Reform Party of the United States of America), Nov. 20, 2009.
James Edward Jennelle Jr. upon the death of Nelson Lee Keyton Jr. (Independent), July 22, 2016.
David Lee Ion upon the death of William Benjamin Nees (Independent Statesmen), Oct. 20, 2020.
Byron Lane Poindexter upon the death of John Oscian Parmele Jr. (Independent), Oct. 21, 2016.
Thomas Eugene Bowie upon the death of Robert W. Whitaker (American Freedom), June 3, 2017.
Mae Poulet upon the death of Satchel (Bully), Mar. 2015
David L. Knight upon the death of Santa Roy Allen Clark (Independent) in 2020[?]
Mark Stedman upon the death of Josiah Stoltzfus (Independent), Jan. 2014
Angela Nicole Walker upon the death of Emidio Soltysik (Socialist Party of the United States of America), June 28, 2020
Christopher Michael Lauer upon the death of Roger Eugene Nichols (Unity Party of America), Jan. 2, 2019

Electoral votes for third party Vice-President

1972 - Theodora Nathalia Nathan (Libertarian) 1/538 - 0.19%
1832 - Amos Ellmaker (Anti-Masonic), 7/286 - 2.45%
1856 - Andrew Jackson Donelson (American), 8/296 - 2.7%
1832 - Henry Lee (Nullifier), 11/286 - 3.85%
1924 - Burton Kendall Wheeler (Progressive), 13/531 - 2.45%
1872 - Benjamin Gratz Brown (Liberal Republican), 18/352 for President since Presidential nominee Greeley (who earned 66/352) died between Election Day and the meeting of the Electoral College
1968 - Curtis Emerson LeMay (American Independent), 21/538 - 3.9%
1892 - James Gaven Field (People's), 22/444 - 4.95%
1968 - Samuel Marvin Griffin (American Independent), 25/538 - 4.65%
1896 - Thomas E. Watson (People's), 27/447 - 6.04%
1860 - Edward Everett (Constitutional Union), 39/303 - 12.87%
1948 - Fielding Lewis Wright (States' Rights Democratic), 39/531 - 7.34%
1860 - Joseph Lane (Constitutional Democratic), 72/303 - 23.76%
1912 - Hiram Warren Johnson (Progressive), 88/531 - 16.57%
1996 - June Syers (Lemonade), 272/538 - 50.56%
2000 - Peter Joseph Ross (Tomorrow), 270+/538 - 50%+
2012 - Mark Stedman (Independent) 270+/538 - 50%+
2016 - Hans Otto Georg Hermann Fegelein (Downfall version) (Reich), 479/538 - 89.03%

*2016 - Although not running for VP that year, Winona LaDuke (1996, 2000 Green VP) received one vote for VP from a faithless Elector.
*2016 - Tulsi Gabbard (Independent Democrat) was given a single vote for VP by a faithless Democratic Elector in Minnesota but it was "dismissed."

Candidates who ran for VP in a third party for two elections

Marietta Lizzie Bell Stow, 1884 (Equal Rights Party) and 1892 (National Woman Suffragists' Party)
Benjamin Hanford, 1904, 1908 (Socialist Party of America)
Aaron Sherman Watkins, 1908, 1912 (Prohibition)
August Gillhaus, 1912, 1920 (Socialist Labor)
Benjamin Gitlow, 1924 (Workers Party of America) and 1928 (Workers (Communist))
James Hudson Maurer, 1928, 1932 (Socialist Party of America)
Florence Garvin, 1932 (National) and 1936 (National Greenback)
Harry A. Romer, 1944 (America First) and 1948 (Christian Nationalist)
Stephen Emery, 1948, 1952 (Socialist Labor)
Samuel Herman Friedman, 1952, 1956 (Socialist Party of America)
Georgia Olive Cozzini, 1956, 1960 (Socialist Labor)
Edward Kirby Meador, 1956, 1960 (Greenback)
Benjamin McLane Spock, 1968 (National Conference for a New Politics, Peace and Freedom), 1976 (People's)
Piglet, 1972, 1976 (Children's)
Jarvis Tyner, 1972, 1976 (Communist Party USA)
Willie Mae Reid, 1976, 1992 (Socialist Workers)
Earl Farwell Dodge Jr., 1976, 1980 (Prohibition, National Statesman)
Edmund Gerald Brown Jr., 1976, 1980 (Independent)
Matilde Zimmermann, 1980, 1984 (Socialist Workers)
Naomi Cohen, 1980, 1988 (Workers World)
Lawrence A. Holmes, 1980, 1992 (Workers World)
Angela Yvonne Davis, 1980, 1984 (Communist Party USA)
George Robert Weaver, 1984, 1988 (Independent)
Emma Wong Mar, 1984, 1988 (Peace and Freedom)
Jay Richard Moore, 1988, 1992 (Common Man's)
George David Ormsby, 1988, 1992 (Prohibition)
Marlin Dale Thacker, 1988, 1992 (Independent)
Albion Williamson Knight Jr., 1992, 1996 (US Taxpayers)
Fred Mazelis, 1992, 1996 (Workers League, Socialist Equality)
George Lee McMahon, 1996, 2012 (Independent Grassroots, Grassroots)
Winona LaDuke, 1996, 2000 (Green)
Albert B. Moore, 2000, 2004 (American)
Sharon E. Marth, 2000, 2016 (Independent)
Eduardo Rios, 2000, 2004 (United Fascist Union)
Barbie Millicent Roberts, 2000, 2016 (USA intraParty/Independent)
Michael Joseph Jackson, 2000, 2008 (Independent/Independent Republican)
Mary Cal Hollis, 2000, 2004 (Socialist Party of the United States of America)
Margaret Jane Trowe, 2000, 2004 (Socialist Workers)
Oscar Renderos Castillo, 2004, 2008 (Independent)
Marilyn Ann Taylor, 2004, 2008 (Personal Choice/Boston Tea)
James N. Clymer, 2004, 2012 (Constitution)
Howard Leroy Lydick, 2004, 2008 (Prohibition-Dodge faction)
Leroy John Pletton, 2004, 2008 (Prohibition)
Gordon Fred Bailey, 2008, 2012 (Madisonian-Federalist)
Alden H. Link, 2008, 2012 (Objectivist)
Eugene Puryear, 2008, 2016 (Party for Socialism and Liberation)
Alyson Kennedy, 2008, 2012 (Socialist Workers)
Steven Bernard Schulin, 2008, 2016 (America's Independent/America's)
Ronald Ernest Paul, 2008, 2012 (Independent)
Richard Milhous Nixon (Spirit), 2008, 2012 (Independent)
James George Janos, 2012, 2016 (Independent)
Deatra Marie Loomer, 2012, 2016 (Independent/Constitutionist)
Howard Gresham Hawkins, 2012, 2016 (Green Party of the United States)
David Earl Marshall, 2012, 2016 (Sparty/Harty)
David Lee Ion, 2012, 2016 (Independent Statesmen)
Jennifer Mulhern Granholm, 2012, 2016 (Independent)
Cathy L. Toole, 2012, 2016 (Mississippi Reform)
Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia, 2012, 2016 (Independent)
Bronn Stokeworth, 2012, 2016 (HOL)
Vermin Love Supreme, 2012 (Rent is Too Damn High), 2016 (Guns and Dope)
Rainbow Dash, 2012, 2016 (Independent)
Neil deGrasse Tyson, 2012, 2016 (Independent)
James Orlando Ogle III, 2012 (Independent), 2016 (Independent Party of the United States of America)
Sarah Louise Palin, 2012, 2016 (Independent)
George the Mutt, 2012, 2016 (Independent)
Bernard Sanders, 2016, 2020 (Independent)
Richard A. Sanders, 2016, 2020 (American Party of America)
Oliver Laurence North, 2016, 2020 (Independent)
David Allen Looper, 2016, 2020 (Unaffiliated)
Thomas Andrew Lemay, 2016, 2020 (Independent)
Richard Alan Mende, 2016, 2020 (Independent)
Angela Nicole Walker, 2016 (Socialist Party of the United States of America), 2020 (Socialist Party of the United States of America/Green Party of the United States/Legal Marijuana Now)
Crawling Chaos, 2016, 2020 (Independent)
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks, 2016, 2020 (Independent)
Nathan Revo Sorenson, 2016, 2020 (Independent American)
Taylor Alison Swift, 2016, 2020 (Unknown)
Cedric D'Wayne Jefferson, 2016 (Pop It Reform), 2020 (WXYZ New Day)
Donald Lee Dear, 2016, 2020 (Independent Democrat)
Kanye Omari West, 2016 (Independent), 2020 (American Independent)
Tulsi Gabbard, 2016 (Independent Democrat), 2020 (Free Soil)
Luna Lovegood, 2016, 2020 (Harry Potter Alliance)
Patrick Star, 2016 (Independent), 2020 (Green)
Daniel D. Robbins, 2016, 2020 (Independent)
Christopher Michael Tarter, 2016, 2020 (Independent)
Levi, 2016, 2020 (Independent)

Candidates who ran for VP in a third party for three elections

James William Ford, 1932, 1936, 1940 (Communist Party USA)
Symon Gould, 1948, 1952, 1956 (American Vegetarian)
Myra Tanner Weiss, 1952, 1956, 1960 (Socialist Workers)
Anna Marie Yezo, 1956 (American Third), 1960, 1964 (Poor Man's)
Adrian Tilt, 1968, 1972, 1976 (National Hamiltonian)
Jesus (Spirit), 1972 (Loyal USA) 1988, 2008 (Independent)
Sandra M. King, 1984, 1988, 1992 (Independent)
Vinton Douglas Tompkins, 1992, 1996, 2000 (Natural Law)
Ricky Johnson, 2008, 2012, 2016 (Independent)
Scott Clayborn Falls, 2008, 2012, 2016 (Independent)
God, 2008, 2016, 2020 (Independent)
Daryl Dixon, 2012, 2016, 2020 (Independent)
Beer, 2016, 2020, 2024 (Independent)
Donkey, 2016, 2020, 2024 (Independent)
Walter Sobchak 2016, 2020, 2024 (Independent)

Candidates who ran for VP in a third party for four elections

Gloria Estela La Riva, 1984, 1988, 1996, 2000 (Workers World)
Opus the Penguin, 1984, 1988, 2016, 2020 (National Radical Meadow)
American People, 2012, 2016, 2020, 2024 (Independent)
Dagon, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020 (Independent)
Han Solo, 2012, 2016, 2020, 2024 (Independent)

Candidates who ran for VP in five elections

Baby, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016 (Beak and Freedom)
Darth Vader, 1984, 2012, 2016, 2020, 2024 (Independent)

Candidates who ran for VP in six elections

Luke Skywalker, 2000 (Sith), 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, 2024 (Independent)

Candidates who ran for VP in eight elections

William Thomas Riker, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020 (Independent)

Candidates who ran for VP simultaneously in two parties with two different Presidential nominees

Bryan Marcellus Miller, 1960 (Constitution and Tax Cut)
Richard Milhous Nixon, 1976 (Independent and Memphis American)
Ronald Ernest Paul, 2008 (Independent and Independent)
Jennifer Mulhern Granholm, 2012 (Independent and Independent)
James George Janos, 2012 (Independent and Independent)
Ajamu Sibeko Baraka, 2016 (Green Party of the United States, and, Wake Up)
Barbie Millicent Roberts, 2016 (Independent, and Independent)
James Christian Kimmel, 2016 (Independent and Independent)
Bernard Sanders, 2016 (Independent and American Peoples)
Willard Mitt Romney, 2016 (PILGRIMS Alliance Party of America and American Peoples)
Mark Cuban, 2016 (Independent and American Peoples)

Candidates who ran for VP simultaneously in three parties with three different Presidential nominees

James Danforth Quayle, 1992 (Independent, Independent, Republican)

Candidates who ran for VP simultaneously in one party with two different Presidential nominees

Alyson Kennedy, 2008 (Socialist Workers)

Candidates who ran for VP simultaneously in one party with three different Presidential nominees

Matilde Zimmermann, 1980 (Socialist Workers)

Attorneys

William Richardson Davie
Amos Ellmaker
Thomas Earle
Thomas Morris
John Anthony Quitman
Chares Jones Jenkins
George Washington Julian
Andrew Jackson Donelson
Samuel McFarland
Benjamin Gratz Brown
John Quincy Adams II
Gideon Tabor Stewart
Samuel Fenton Cary
Barzillai Jefferson Chambers
William Daniel
Peter Dinwidde Wigginton
James Gaven Field
Hale Johnson
Thomas E. Watson
Job Harriman
Ignatius Loyola Donnelly
Aaron Sherman Watkins
Samuel Wardell Williams
Hiram Warren Johnson
Seymour Stedman
Burton Kendall Wheeler
Lee Roy Tillman
Wesley Henry Bennington
Frank Stewart Regan
Claude Alonzo Watson
Thomas Charles O'Brien
Darlington Hoopes
Fielding Lewis Wright
John Breckinridge Tenney
Edwin Maurice Cooper
John Bell Williams
Thomas Harold Werdel
William Ezra Jenner
Merritt Barton Curtis
Jesse Benjamin Stoner Jr.
Richard Joseph Daley
John Vliet Lindsay
Peter Paul O'Dwyer
Mark Lane
Lawrence D. Hochman
John E. Clay
Hugh Wilson Long III
Carl Maxey
Richard Milhous Nixon
Edmund Gerald Brown Jr.
James Robert Goodluck
Edward Moore Kennedy
Ralph Nader
Harold Edward Stassen
William Daniel Dyke
David Peter Bergland
Spiro Theodore Agnew
Billy Marvin Davis
B. Kwaku Duren
James Danforth Quayle
Nancy Theresa Lord
Edwin Vieira Jr.
Herbert W. Titus
Barbie Millicent Roberts
James N. Clymer
Richard Vincent Campagna
Howard Leroy Lydick
Martin Saul Wishnatsky
Michael Anthony Peroutka
Ann Hart Coulter
Wallace Cleaver
Darrell Lane Castle
Richard Milhous Nixon (Spirit)
Jennifer Mulhern Granholm
Scott Philip Brown
Richard John Santorum
Benjamin R. Manski
James Polin Gray
Mark D. Willis
Andrew Peter Napolitano
Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
Michael Alan Steinberg
William Floyd Weld
Michelle Kaye Hicks
Daniel Lee White
Joaquin Castro
John Forbes Kerry
Amy Jean Klobuchar
Nancy Kay Jenkins
Willard Mitt Romney

Poets

Reynell Coates
Charles Stuart Welles
Simon Bolivar Buckner
Ignatius Loyola Donnelly
Emil Seidel
James Arthur Edgerton
Burr McCloskey
Edward Estlin Cummings
Joffre Le Mar Stewart
Rodolfo Gonzales
Daniel William Fry
Marshall E. Uncapher
John Quinn Brisben
Jewelie Ann Goeller
Megan A. Adams
Sally Jane Goodknight
Pro-Life Andy Charles Frederick Anderson
Kathleen E. McClatchy
Samuel L. Blumenfeld
Anne E.R. Goeke
Muhammad Ali
Matthew Edward Gonzalez
Luis Javier Rodriguez
Irvin Lamar Rozier
Juaquin James Malphurs
Karen Dell Kinnison
Lamont Gregory Lilly
Sarah Lois Hart
David Acosta
John Randolph Smith
Christopher Michael Lauer
Pete tha Nut