Henry Lee February 4, 1782 (Beverly, Mass.) – February 6, 1867 (Boston, Mass.)
VP candidate for Nullifier Party 1832
Running mate with nominee: John Floyd (1783-1837)
Popular vote: 0 (In 1832 South Carolina was the only state where legislators voted for electors)
Electoral vote: 11/286 (SC)
The campaign: Created by John Calhoun as a response to the policies of President Jackson, the Nullifier Party (aka Independent Democratic Party) stood on a platform of states' rights, free trade, and was pro-slavery. Members of the party held some seats in the US House and Senate in the 1830s. Unlike most others in the Party, Lee had not come from the Democratic-Republican Party and this Massachusetts-based economist was actually opposed to nullification. His main issue was free trade.
Election history:
1830, US House Representative for Mass. (Federalist) - defeated
1850, US House Representative for Mass. - defeated
Other occupations: merchant, importer, free trade economist, author.
Buried: Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
Notes:
Lived in Calcutta, India 1812-1815
Never held public office
Was considered painfully shy.
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