Mango Price

 

Mango Price, April 15, 2010 (Wilmington, N.C.) -

VP candidate for Feline Party of the United States (aka Independent) (2016)

Running mate with nominee: Artemis Bastet Belladonna (b. 2015)
Popular vote: 0 (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

Artemis Bastet Belladonna, a female grey cat in Cary, N.C., filed with the FEC as an Independent aspirant for US President on Oct. 26, 2016. The running-mate was Mango Price, a male orange tabby in Raleigh, N.C. making him the second candidate on a national ticket of that hue with no public service experience.

Although the Feline Party, as their website called them, had a late start in the election season they made up for it by a very active online campaign.

Artemis' biography as provided on her webpage--

About Artemis
Artemis is a (very cute) one year old cat living in Cary, North Carolina. She enjoys eating, sleeping, and killing things.

Her History
Artemis Bastet Belladonna was born circa June 4, 2015 near Henderson, North Carolina, United States. She was found, all by herself on July 4, 2015, and was estimated to be 1 month old. She came into the Gaska household on July 23, 2016, and found a forever home.

Her Name
​Artemis- The ancient Greek goddess of the hunt, and of all animals.
Bastet- The ancient Egyptian goddess of cats.
Belladonna- A poisonous plant.

The ticket ran on a platform of animal rights but also weighed in on other issues--

Abortion
Artemis believes that all women should have access to safe abortions, and that we should continue funding Planned Parenthood, as they do very good work. (Tweet)

Guns
The 2nd amendment is important, and Artemis wishes to keep it in its entirety. Artemis wants to ban people on the no-fly list from purchasing weapons, and she agrees with Bernie Sanders on not letting people sue the gun companies if they got shot. "If someone hit you with a hammer, would you sue Craftsman?"- Artemis

Ranked Choice Voting

Terrorism
Artemis hates ISIS/ISIL. She wants to scratch them. So, she will work with other nations in the middle east to fight terrorism.

Unemployment
Artemis wants to kill two birds with one stone (yum) with her plan for unemployment. She is going to begin a huge plan to repair our nation's failing infrastructure, employing millions in the process. This will leave our nation with all new roads, highways, bridges, airports, and more.

The Feline Party of the United States should not be confused with the Feline Party that ran two cats named Tabby and Goldie as a ticket in 2004. The Artemis campaign seemed to have a connection with a Kik Messenger chat group called "The Greatest Group Ever Created (TGGEC)."

Artemis also ran for President in 2020 but I could not confirm any running-mate for that election.

Election history: none

Other occupations: cat

Notes:
Cary, N.C. was named after another third party Vice-Presidential candidate, Samuel Fenton Cary who was the Greenback Party running-mate in 1876.

Charles Oliver Southern

Charles Oliver Southern, February 20, 1920 (Cincinnati, Ohio) - June 13, 1998 (Cincinnati, Ohio)

VP candidate for Independent (1984)

Running mate with nominee: Thomas M.J. Jones (1908-1994)
Popular vote: ? (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

Thomas M.J. Jones, a 76-year old retired postal worker from Delhi Township in the Cincinnati region ran for President as an independent write-in.

Jones wanted to cut the defense budget in favor of social programs. He also felt marijuana should be legalized "because people are going to break their necks to raise it and make money, and the government could get a cut of the profits."

The running mate in this campaign was a former co-worker of Jones' named Charles Southern also of Cincinnati, "But I haven't asked him yet. He doesn't know." Southern was most likely the same as the Republican African American political figure who was active in that community. This is complicated by the fact that Charles Southern Jr. (b. 1948) also lived in Cincinnati so apologies if I am confusing father and son.

Jones had realistic expectations about the outcome: "I got a few friends I'll get write-in votes from but I don't expect to win. I know I can't make it because it's a money game. I don't have $20 million to spend on a campaign. I think all that money could be better spent anyway."

Being residents of the same state would have posed a Constitutional complication in the event the Jones/Southern ticket had won.

Election history: none

Other occupations: soldier (WWII), engineer for General Electric, member of the Avondale Community Council, Board of Directors Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority, President of the Lincoln-Douglass Republican Club, co-founder Greater Cincinnati Chapter Tuskegee Airmen, Inc.

Buried: Spring Grove Cemetery (Cincinnati, Ohio)

Notes:
Trained to be a pilot at Tuskegee, Alabama.
Ham radio buff.
Buried in the same cemetery as Samuel Fenton Cary (1814-1900) VP candidate for Greenback Party
 1876. Also with Salmon P. Chase, Joseph Hooker, and George Pendleton.

Samuel Fenton Cary

Samuel Fenton Cary, February 18, 1814 (Cincinnati, Ohio) – September 29, 1900 (Cincinnati, Ohio)

VP candidate for Greenback Party 1876
Running mate with nominee: Peter Cooper (1791-1883)
Popular vote: 83,726 (0.99%)             
Electoral vote: 0/369

The campaign:
The Greenback Party was initially an agrarian response to the economic Panic of 1873. It could be argued it was the ancestor of the later Populist Party boom of the 1890s. Philanthropist Peter Cooper, the Party's nominee, was 85 years old at the time of the campaign.

The 1876 vote results was one of the most messed up affairs in Presidential election history, practically starting a second Civil War. There was one state where the Cooper/Cary ticket were possible spoilers-- Indiana, the very place where the Party was born. The tally there was Tilden 213,526 (48.65% and 15 electoral votes), Hayes 208,011 (47.39%) and Cooper  17,233 (3.93%).

Cooper and Cary were on the ballot in 18 states with their strongest showing being in Kansas (6.26%). In subsequent elections the Greenbacks would add urban and industrial laborers to their ranks. 

Election history:
1867-1869 - US House of Representatives (Ohio) (Independent Republican)
1868 - US House of Representatives (Ohio) (Democratic) - defeated
1875 - Lieutenant Governor of Ohio (Democratic) - defeated

Other occupations: attorney, Ohio Paymaster General during US-Mexican War earning him the title of "General Cary", prohibitionist and anti-slavery and rights of labor lecturer and author, Collector of Internal Revenue (Ohio 1st Dist.), Chief of Staff for three Ohio governors 

Buried: Spring Grove Cemetery (Cincinnati, Ohio)

Notes:
Cary was the only Republican in the House to vote against impeaching President Andrew Johnson.
Became the Greenback Party VP nominee after Sen. Newton Booth (Calif.) turned it down.
Declined a position on the Ohio Supreme Court.
Delegate for Lincoln at the 1864 Republican Convention.
The city of Cary, NC is named in his honor.