A Slice in Third Party Vice-Presidential Time: 1870-1871
Here's some fun historical trivia. Between the dates of the birth of Simon Peter William Drew (August 6, 1870) to the death of Andrew Jackson Donelson (June 26, 1871) there were 68 Third Party Vice-Presidential Candidates living between the Earth and the sky. By June 1871 eight of these individuals had already served as VP nominees.
Here's mosaic of this unique group and where they were between August 6, 1870 to June 26, 1871--
Sidney Rigdon (February 19, 1793 – July 14, 1876)
VP candidate for Reform Party 1844
Living with family in Friendship, NY as his LDS offshoot religion rapidly declined.
Charles Francis Adams Sr. (August 18, 1807 – November 21, 1886)
VP candidate for Free Soil Party 1848
Joined the Liberal Republican Party. Started work on creating the first Presidential library in honor of his father, John Q. Adams.
Charles C. Foote (March 30, 1811 – May 3, 1891)
VP candidate for National Liberty Party 1848
Chaplain of the Detroit House of Corrections.
George Washington Julian (May 5, 1817 – July 7, 1899)
VP candidate for Free Soil Party 1852
Lost the Republican primary for reelection to the US House of Representatives from Indiana.
Charles Jones Jenkins (January 6, 1805 – June 14, 1883)
VP candidate for Union Party 1852
Returned to Georgia after living in Europe for two years. Became a trustee of the University of Georgia,
Reynell Coates (December 10, 1802 – April 27, 1886)
VP candidate for Native American Party (aka American Party) 1852
Living in Camden, NJ. Worked to have the local water supply under municipal control.
Andrew Jackson Donelson (August 25, 1799 – June 26, 1871)
VP candidate for American (Know-Nothing) Party 1856
Died in the original Peabody Hotel in Memphis. June 26, 1871.
Joseph Lane (December 14, 1801 – April 19, 1881)
VP candidate for Constitutional Democratic Party 1860
Retired on his farm near Roseburg, Oregon.
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)
Editor and publisher of the New National Era newspaper.
John Quincy Adams II (September 22, 1833 – August 14, 1894)
VP candidate for Straight-Out Democratic Party (1872)
Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (Democratic). Defeated in the 1870 election for Governor.
Benjamin Gratz Brown (May 28, 1826 – December 13, 1885)
VP candidate for Liberal Republican Party and Democratic Party (1872)
Governor of Missouri (Liberal Republican Party)
John Russell (September 20, 1822 - November 4, 1912)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1872)
Methodist minister in Michigan. Defeated in election for US House of Representatives (Mich.) as a member of the Temperance Party. First Chairman of the Prohibition Party.
Samuel Fenton Cary (February 18, 1814 – September 29, 1900)
VP candidate for Greenback Party 1876
On a 10-month temperance lecture tour in England.
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)
Preparing to run for Governor of Ohio under the Prohibition Party label in 1871.
Barzillai Jefferson Chambers (December 5, 1817 – September 16, 1895)
VP candidate for Greenback Party 1880
Alderman in Cleburne, Tex. as a Democrat.
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)
Member of the US Senate (Kan.) (Republican)
Henry Adams Thompson (March 23, 1837 – July 8, 1920)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1880)
Supt. of Schools in Troy, Ohio.
Absolom Madden West (1818 – September 30, 1894)
VP candidate for Greenback Party 1884
Purchased a mansion called "Oakleigh" in Holly Springs, Miss. in 1870.
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)
Involved with the San Francisco Woman Suffrage Association.
William Daniel (January 24, 1826 – October 13, 1897)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1884)
Trustee of Dickinson College.
John A. Colvin (January 8, 1841 - February 15, 1900)
VP candidate for Industrial Reform Party (1888)
Moved from Illinois to Moline, Kan. in 1870.
Peter Dinwiddie Wigginton (September 6, 1839 – July 7, 1890)
VP candidate for American Party (1888)
Attorney in Snelling, Calif.
William Harrison Thompson Wakefield (December 13, 1834 - July 26, 1913)
VP candidate for United Labor Party (1888)
Farmer in Douglas County, Kansas
Charles E. Cunningham (July 1, 1823 – April 21, 1895)
VP candidate for Union Labor Party (1888)
A Democrat operating a sawmill in Little Rock, Arkansas.
John Anderson Brooks (June 3, 1836 – February 3, 1897)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1888)
A minister at the First Christian Church in St. Louis.
Charles Stuart Welles (February 22, 1848 - February 5, 1927)
VP candidate for Equal Rights Party (1888)
In Europe.
Charles Horatio Matchett (May 15, 1843 – October 23, 1919)
VP candidate for Socialist Labor Party (1892)
Married Georgiana Ada Straw May 15, 1871.
James Gaven Field (February 24, 1826 – October 12, 1901)
VP candidate for People's Party (1892)
Farmer and attorney in Albemarle County, Va.
James Britton Buchanan Boone Cranfill (September 12, 1858 – December 28, 1942)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1892)
Boy in Texas.
Simon Bolivar Buckner (April 1, 1823 – January 8, 1914)
VP candidate for National Democratic Party (1896)
In the life insurance business and engaged in returning to Kentucky after living in exile in New Orleans.
Hale Johnson (August 21, 1847 – November 4, 1902)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1896)
Living in Illinois. Became a Christian in 1870.
Matthew Maguire (June 28, 1850 (some sources have 1855) - January 1, 1917)
VP candidate for Socialist Labor Party (1896)
Married Martha McCormick in Paterson, NJ, Oct. 30, 1870.
Thomas Edward Watson (September 5, 1856 – September 26, 1922)
VP candidate for People's Party (1896)
Teenager in Thomson, Ga.
James Haywood Southgate (July 12, 1859 – September 29, 1916)
VP candidate for National Prohibition Party (aka Liberty Party aka Silver Prohibitionists aka Free Silver Prohibitionists aka National Party) (1896)
Boy in North Carolina.
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)
In 1870 defeated for election to the US House of Representatives (Minn.) as part of the Democratic Party.
Henry Brewer Metcalf (April 2, 1829 – October 5, 1904)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1900)
A partner in a Boston dry goods importing company.
David Herron Martin (Mar. 28, 1849 - 1933)
VP candidate for United Christian Party (1900)
Living in Pittsburgh area.
Valentine Remmel (March 9, 1853 - May 9, 1929)
VP candidate for Socialist Labor Party (1900)
Working in a glass factory in the Pittsburgh area as a teenager.
Job Harriman (January 15, 1861 – October 26, 1925)
VP candidate for Social Democratic Party (1900)
Boy in Indiana.
Thomas Henry Tibbles (May 22, 1840 – May 14, 1928)
VP candidate for People's Party (aka Populist Party) (1904)
Temporarily left newspaper work and became a circuit preacher in 1871.
George Washington Carroll (April 1, 1855 - December 14, 1935)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1904)
Teenager in Beaumont, Tex.
Benjamin Hanford (1861 – January 24, 1910)
VP candidate for Socialist Party of America (1904, 1908)
A boy in either Ohio or Iowa.
William Wesley Cox (February 5, 1865 — October 29, 1948)
VP candidate for Socialist Labor Party (1904)
Boy in Illinois.
William C. Payne, b. 1867
VP candidate for National Negro Liberty Party (aka National Liberty Party aka Liberty Party aka Civil Liberty Party) (1904)
Boy in Warrenton, Va.
Albert A. King (September 8, 1869 - February 29, 1908)
VP candidate for Continental Party (1904)
Boy in Missouri.
Lorenzo Stephen Coffin (April 29, 1823 - January 17, 1915)
VP candidate for United Christian Party (1908)
Farmer near Fort Dodge, Iowa.
Samuel Wardell Williams (February 7, 1851 – August 5, 1913)
VP candidate for People's Party (aka Populist Party) (1908)
Studying law in Vicennes, Ind.
John Temple Graves (November 9, 1856 – August 8, 1925)
VP candidate for Independence Party (aka Independence League aka National Independence League) (1908)
Teenager in South Carolina.
Aaron Sherman Watkins (November 29, 1863 – February 9, 1941)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1908, 1912)
Boy in Ohio.
Emil Seidel (December 13, 1864 – June 24, 1947)
VP candidate for Socialist Party of America (1912)
Boy in Wisconsin.
Hiram Warren Johnson (September 2, 1866 – August 6, 1945)
VP candidate for Progressive Party (aka Bull Moose Party) (1912)
Boy in Sacramento, Calif.
August Gillhaus (1867 - May 4, 1932)
VP candidate for Socialist Labor Party (aka Industrial Labor Party) (1912, 1920)
Boy in the New York City area.
John Milliken Parker, Sr. (March 16, 1863 – May 20, 1939)
VP candidate for Progressive Party (aka Bull Moose Party aka Middle-Road Progressive Party) (1916)
Family moved from Mississippi to New Orleans, ca. 1871.
Ira Landrith (March 23, 1865 – October 11, 1941)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1916)
Boy in Texas.
George Ross Kirkpatrick (February 24, 1867 – March 23, 1937)
VP candidate for Socialist Party of America (1916)
Boy in Ohio.
Maximillian Sebastian Hayes (May 25, 1866 - October 11, 1945)
VP candidate for Farmer-Labor Party (1920)
Boy in Havana, Ohio.
Leander Lycurgus Pickett (February 8, 1859 - May 9, 1928)
VP candidate for American Party (aka Ku Klux Party aka Ku Klux Klan Party) (1924)
Boy in Mississippi?
Marie Caroline Brehm (June 30, 1859 – January 21, 1926)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1924)
Girl in Ohio.
John Cromwell Lincoln (July 17, 1866 - May 24, 1959)
VP candidate for Commonwealth Land Party (aka Single Tax Party) (1924)
Boy in Ohio.
Wesley Henry Bennington (May 18, 1861 - October 30, 1928)
VP candidate for National Party (aka Greenback Party) (1928)
Boy in Ohio.
John Clinton McGee (1863? - March 31, 1936?)
VP candidate for National Progressive Party (aka Progressive Party aka Bull Moose Party) (1928)
Boy in Brazil in a "Confedero" family.
Simon Peter William Drew (August 6, 1870 - December 12, 1934)
VP candidate for Interracial Independent Political Party (aka National Interracial Party) (1928)
Born August 6, 1870 in Margarettsville, NC.
James Hudson Maurer (April 15, 1864 - March 16, 1944)
VP candidate for Socialist Party of America (1928, 1932)
Boy in Reading, Penn.
James Arthur Edgerton (January 30, 1869 - December 3, 1938)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1928)
Boy in Ohio.
Frank Stewart Regan (October 3, 1862 – July 25, 1944)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1932)
Boy in Rockford, Ill.
Julius J. Reiter (July 4, 1869 - November 29, 1940)
VP candidate for Farmer-Labor Party (1932)
Boy in Minnesota.
Fun facts of the time slot:
1870 Aug. 14 - David Farragut died (b. 1801)
1870 Aug. 15 - Transcontinental Railway completed in Colorado.
1870 Aug. 17 – Hazard Stevens becomes first documented person to ascend to the top of Mount Rainier.
1870 Sept. 18 - Henry D. Washburn describes and names Old Faithful Geyser in Wyoming.
1870 Oct. 12 - Robert E. Lee died (b. 1807)
1870 Oct. 25 - KKK members attack an election rally, instigating a race riot in Eutaw, Alabama.
1870 Oct. 25 - First postcards in the US.
1870 Nov. 1 - US Weather Bureau begins operations.
1870 Nov. 27 - New York Times declares baseball is "The National Game."
1870 Dec. 14 - Newly elected Democrats in the North Carolina House impeach Republican Gov. William Holden in retaliation for the Governor's aggressive efforts to fight the KKK.
1870 Dec. 23 - John Marin born (d. 1953)
1870-1871 winter - First known photo of a UFO in the US, Mt. Washington, NH.
1871 Feb. 15 - John W. Nordstrom born (d. 1963)
1871 Mar. 3 - United States Civil Service Commission created.
1871 Mar. 22 - Voting along straight party lines, the Democrats in the NC Senate convict and remove Gov. William Holden from office. In 2011 the same body unanimously pardoned him.
1871 Apr. 10 - P.T. Barnum opens his three-ring circus "The Greatest Show on Earth"
1871 Apr. 20 - Civil Rights Act of 1871 (Ku Klux Klan Act) signed by President Grant.
1871 May 19 - Walter Bowman Russell born (d. 1963)
