Deasy and Andress
1950
1964
Irene Altahelle Markley Deasy, May 29, 1918 (Newell, Iowa) - December 6, 2014
VP candidate for Unaffiliated (2004)
Running mate with nominee: Stanford Eugene Andress (1917-2013)
Popular vote: 804 (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538
The campaign:
The ticket of Stanford E. "Andy" Andress and Irene Deasy was another husband-wife political team.
Colorado native Andress brought experience as a US Navy veteran, former travel agency executive, private eye, and hospital administrator. He had made attempts for public offices since at least 1965 in Tennessee, California, and Colorado. In 1970 declared himself a "George Wallace Democrat" when he ran against Al Gore Sr. for the US Senate in the primary.
Deasy had formerly been a police officer in New York City and a registered nurse.
Their under the radar campaign did not gain a lot of publicity, but given their backgrounds it would be safe to guess their platform would lean conservative. In 2004 he was 87, she was 86, making their ticket one of the oldest, or perhaps the very oldest, combined age candidate teams in the history of US national politics. If elected, both of them would have served out their first term as they lived well into their 90s. However, being residents of the same state would have posed a problem as far as the Constitution was concerned.
Only on the ballot in Colorado, they finished 7th out of 12 with 0.04% of the popular vote.
Election history: none
Other occupations: receptionist, police officer, nurse
Buried: ?
Notes:
Married April 14, 1994
