A Slice in Third Party Vice-Presidential Time: 1851
Here's some fun historical trivia. Between the dates of the birth of Samuel Wardell Williams (February 7, 1851) to the death of Amos Ellmaker (November 28, 1851) there were 44 Third Party Vice-Presidential Candidates living between the Earth and the sky. By November 1851 only five of these individuals had already served as VP nominees.
Here's mosaic of this unique group and where they were between February 7, 1851-November 28, 1851--
Henry Lee (February 4, 1782 – February 6, 1867)
VP candidate for Nullifier Party 1832
Retired as a Boston merchant in 1840.
Amos Ellmaker (February 2, 1787 - November 28, 1851)
VP candidate for Anti-Masonic Party 1832
Died Nov. 28, 1851 in Lancaster, Penn.
Sidney Rigdon (February 19, 1793 – July 14, 1876)
VP candidate for Reform Party 1844
After the 1847 collapse of his Mormon splinter group the Church of Jesus Christ of the Children of Zion, Rigdon went to live with relatives in upstate New York.
Charles Francis Adams Sr. (August 18, 1807 – November 21, 1886)
VP candidate for Free Soil Party 1848
Editing the multivolume collection of works by his grandfather, President John Adams.
Charles C. Foote (March 30, 1811 – May 3, 1891)
VP candidate for National Liberty Party 1848
Working as a Presbyterian minister and involved with the underground railroad in Michigan.
George Washington Julian (May 5, 1817 – July 7, 1899)
VP candidate for Free Soil Party 1852
On Aug. 4, 1851 lost his bid for re-election to the US House of Representatives as a Congressman from Indiana in the Free Soil Party.
Charles Jones Jenkins (January 6, 1805 – June 14, 1883)
VP candidate for Union Party 1852
Declined an offer for Sec. of Interior by President Fillmore.
Reynell Coates (December 10, 1802 – April 27, 1886)
VP candidate for Native American Party (aka American Party) 1852
Editor of a serial, Leaflets of Memory.
John Anthony Quitman (September 1, 1798 (or 1799) – July 17, 1858)
VP candidate for Southern Rights Party 1852
Had resigned as Governor of Mississippi on Feb. 3, 1851 in order to defend himself against charges of illegally providing material for a takeover of Cuba by Narciso López. The court ended with hung juries.
Samuel M. Bell
VP candidate for Liberty Party 1852
The mysterious Mr. Bell was involved in abolition activities in what is now West Virginia.
Andrew Jackson Donelson (August 25, 1799 – June 26, 1871)
VP candidate for American (Know-Nothing) Party 1856
Became editor of the Washington Union.
Joseph Lane (December 14, 1801 – April 19, 1881)
VP candidate for Constitutional Democratic Party 1860
Elected Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat for Oregon Territory.
Edward Everett (April 11, 1794 – January 15, 1865)
VP candidate for Constitutional Union Party 1860
Served as an aide to Sec. of State Daniel Webster.
Samuel McFarland (1795 - February 17, 1868)
VP candidate for Radical Abolitionists Party (aka Liberty Party) 1860
Sheep farmer near Washington, Penn. Involved with the underground railroad.
Frederick Douglass (ca. February 1818 – February 20, 1895)
VP candidate for Equal Rights Party (aka People's Party aka Cosmo-Political Party aka National Radical Reformers) (1872)
Begins his journey into the political sphere via association with and patronage from the Liberty Party.
John Quincy Adams II (September 22, 1833 – August 14, 1894)
VP candidate for Straight-Out Democratic Party (1872)
Probably attending Harvard.
Benjamin Gratz Brown (May 28, 1826 – December 13, 1885)
VP candidate for Liberal Republican Party and Democratic Party (1872)
Served as a newspaper correspondent and secretary at the Treaty of Fort Laramie, September.
John Russell (September 20, 1822 - November 4, 1912)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1872)
Methodist minister in Michigan
Samuel Fenton Cary (February 18, 1814 – September 29, 1900)
VP candidate for Greenback Party 1876
First child, Olive, born.
Donald Kirkpatrick (September 9, 1830 - September 19, 1889)
VP candidate for American National Party (aka Anti-Masonic Party aka Anti-Secret Society Party) (1876)
Salt manufacturer in Syracuse, NY area.
Gideon Tabor Stewart (August 7, 1824 - June 10, 1909)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1876)
Auditor of Huron County, Ohio as a member of the Whig Party.
Barzillai Jefferson Chambers (December 5, 1817 – September 16, 1895)
VP candidate for Greenback Party 1880
Surveyor in Texas.
Samuel Clarke Pomeroy (January 3, 1816 – August 27, 1891)
VP candidate for Anti-Masonic Party (aka American Party aka Anti-Secret Society Party aka National American Party) (1880)
Living in Southampton, Mass.
Henry Adams Thompson (March 23, 1837 – July 8, 1920)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1880)
A teenager in Stormstown, Penn.
Absolom Madden West (1818 – September 30, 1894)
VP candidate for Greenback Party 1884
A "planter" in Holmes County, Miss.
Marietta Lizzie Bell Stow (1830? – December 27, 1902)
VP candidate for Equal Rights Party (aka National Equal Rights Party) (1884)
VP candidate for National Woman Suffragists' Party (1892)
Probable year her son Frank Arthur Bell was born
William Daniel (January 24, 1826 – October 13, 1897)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1884)
Admitted to the Bar in Maryland.
John A. Colvin (January 8, 1841 - February 15, 1900)
VP candidate for Industrial Reform Party (1888)
A child in Montgomery County, Ohio.
Peter Dinwiddie Wigginton (September 6, 1839 – July 7, 1890)
VP candidate for American Party (1888)
A boy in Wisconsin.
William Harrison Thompson Wakefield (December 13, 1834 - July 26, 1913)
VP candidate for United Labor Party (1888)
Attending school probably in Plattville, Wis.
Charles E. Cunningham (July 1, 1823 – April 21, 1895)
VP candidate for Union Labor Party (1888)
In California and engaged in freighting and mining.
John Anderson Brooks (June 3, 1836 – February 3, 1897)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1888)
Teenager on a farm in Mason County, Kentucky that had slaves.
Charles Stuart Welles (February 22, 1848 - February 5, 1927)
VP candidate for Equal Rights Party (1888)
Child in Hornellsville, NY.
Charles Horatio Matchett (May 15, 1843 – October 23, 1919)
VP candidate for Socialist Labor Party (1892)
Child in Brighton, Mass.
James Gaven Field (February 24, 1826 – October 12, 1901)
VP candidate for People's Party (1892)
In Virginia studying law with his uncle, Judge Richard H. Field.
Simon Bolivar Buckner (April 1, 1823 – January 8, 1914)
VP candidate for National Democratic Party (1896)
Stationed at Fort Atkinson, Kansas Territory.
Hale Johnson (August 21, 1847 – November 4, 1902)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1896)
Small child in Indiana.
Matthew Maguire (June 28, 1850 (some sources have 1855) - January 1, 1917)
VP candidate for Socialist Labor Party (1896)
Small child in the New York City area.
Ignatius Loyola Donnelly (November 3, 1831 – January 1, 1901)
VP candidate for People's Party (aka Populist Party aka Middle of the Road Populists) (1900)
A clerk in Philadelphia studying law.
Henry Brewer Metcalf (April 2, 1829 – October 5, 1904)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1900)
Apprentice to a dry goods importing company.
David Herron Martin (Mar. 28, 1849 - 1933)
VP candidate for United Christian Party (1900)
Child in present-day Pittsburgh.
Thomas Henry Tibbles (May 22, 1840 – May 14, 1928)
VP candidate for People's Party (aka Populist Party) (1904)
Child in Illinois.
Lorenzo Stephen Coffin (April 29, 1823 - January 17, 1915)
VP candidate for United Christian Party (1908)
Probably in Ohio.
Samuel Wardell Williams (February 7, 1851 – August 5, 1913)
VP candidate for People's Party (aka Populist Party) (1908)
Born Feb. 7, 1851 in Mount Carmel, Ill.
Fun facts of the time slot:
1851 - The 2018 film The Sisters Brothers is set in Oregon and California in 1851.
1851 Feb. 15 - In defiance of the Fugitive Slave Act, a multiracial group of activists forcible free captured fugitive slave Shadrach Minkins from a Boston courtroom and he is eventually transported to Canada via the underground railroad.
1851 May 6 - John Gorrie granted a patent for an ice-making machine
1851 May 29 - Sojourner Truth delivers her first Ain't I a Woman? speech in Akron, Ohio
1851 June 9 - Jenny Lind and P.T. Barnum end their business partnership on amicable terms.
1851 Aug. 12 - Singer sewing machine improved design is patented.
1851 Aug. 14 - John H. "Doc" Holliday born (d. 1887)
1851 Sept. 10 - Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet died (b. 1787)
1851 Sept. 14 - James Fenimore Cooper died (b. 1789)
1851 Sept. 18 - New York Times is founded.
1851 Nov. 13 - The Denny Party arrives in present-day Seattle.
1851 Nov. 14 - Moby-Dick is published.
