Granville Booker Leeke

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.