A Slice in Third Party Vice-Presidential Time: 1882-1883
Here's some fun historical trivia. Between the dates of the birth of Burton Kendall Wheeler (February 27, 1882) to the death of Charles Jones Jenkins (June 14, 1883) there were 81 Third Party Vice-Presidential Candidates living between the Earth and the sky. By June 1883 sixteen of these individuals had already served as VP nominees.
Here's mosaic of this unique group and where they were between February 27, 1882 to June 14, 1883--
Charles Francis Adams Sr. (August 18, 1807 – November 21, 1886)
VP candidate for Free Soil Party 1848
Retired from public life as he was losing his mental abilities.
Charles C. Foote (March 30, 1811 – May 3, 1891)
VP candidate for National Liberty Party 1848
Presbyterian minister in Detroit, active with the Prohibition Party. Ran for Governor of Michigan in 1882 as part of the American Party.
George Washington Julian (May 5, 1817 – July 7, 1899)
VP candidate for Free Soil Party 1852
In Irvington, Ind. retired from politics and following literary interests.
Charles Jones Jenkins (January 6, 1805 – June 14, 1883)
VP candidate for Union Party 1852
Trustee of the University of Georgia. Died June 14, 1883 in Augusta, Ga.
Reynell Coates (December 10, 1802 – April 27, 1886)
VP candidate for Native American Party (aka American Party) 1852
Living in Camden, NJ.
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)
Wife Anna died Aug. 4, 1882.
John Quincy Adams II (September 22, 1833 – August 14, 1894)
VP candidate for Straight-Out Democratic Party (1872)
Attorney in Quincy, Mass. Had decided to retire from seeking public office.
Benjamin Gratz Brown (May 28, 1826 – December 13, 1885)
VP candidate for Liberal Republican Party and Democratic Party (1872)
Attorney in St. Louis.
John Russell (September 20, 1822 - November 4, 1912)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1872)
Methodist minister, living in Marquette, Mich. In 1882 ran for the US House of Representatives as part of the Prohibition Party.
Samuel Fenton Cary (February 18, 1814 – September 29, 1900)
VP candidate for Greenback Party 1876
Attorney in Cincinnati and active on the lecture circuits.
Donald Kirkpatrick (September 9, 1830 - September 19, 1889)
VP candidate for American National Party (aka Anti-Masonic Party aka Anti-Secret Society Party) (1876)
Living in Syracuse, NY running a salt factory.
Gideon Tabor Stewart (August 7, 1824 - June 10, 1909)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1876)
Attorney in Norwalk, Ohio. Presided over the Women's Suffrage Convention in Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 2, 1882.
Barzillai Jefferson Chambers (December 5, 1817 – September 16, 1895)
VP candidate for Greenback Party 1880
Farmer in Cleburne, Texas. Chairman of the Texas Greenback Party 1882.
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 Washington, DC. Becomes involved in a railroad sale transaction in spring 1883 that will eventually land him before the US Supreme Court as a losing plaintiff.
Henry Adams Thompson (March 23, 1837 – July 8, 1920)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1880)
President of Otterbein University.
Absolom Madden West (1818 – September 30, 1894)
VP candidate for Greenback Party 1884
Living in Holly Springs, 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)
Ran for Governor of California as part of the Women's Independent Political Party.
William Daniel (January 24, 1826 – October 13, 1897)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1884)
President of the Maryland Temperance Alliance.
John A. Colvin (January 8, 1841 - February 15, 1900)
VP candidate for Industrial Reform Party (1888)
Farmer in Wild Cat Township, Kan.
Peter Dinwiddie Wigginton (September 6, 1839 – July 7, 1890)
VP candidate for American Party (1888)
Living in San Francisco. District Attorney of Merced County (Calif.)
William Harrison Thompson Wakefield (December 13, 1834 - July 26, 1913)
VP candidate for United Labor Party (1888)
Newspaper editor in Kansas.
Charles E. Cunningham (July 1, 1823 – April 21, 1895)
VP candidate for Union Labor Party (1888)
Farmer in Little Rock, Arkansas. In 1882 ran for the US House of Representatives as part of the Greenback Party.
John Anderson Brooks (June 3, 1836 – February 3, 1897)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1888)
A minister in Missouri and a Democrat. President of the newly organized Prohibition State Alliance.
Charles Stuart Welles (February 22, 1848 - February 5, 1927)
VP candidate for Equal Rights Party (1888)
In Dartmouth Medical College probably around this time.
Charles Horatio Matchett (May 15, 1843 – October 23, 1919)
VP candidate for Socialist Labor Party (1892)
Living in Massachusetts?
James Gaven Field (February 24, 1826 – October 12, 1901)
VP candidate for People's Party (1892)
Virginia Attorney General (Conservative Party) in 1882.
James Britton Buchanan Boone Cranfill (September 12, 1858 – December 28, 1942)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1892)
Moved to Gatesville, Tex. in 1882, published a weekly paper The Advance.
Simon Bolivar Buckner (April 1, 1823 – January 8, 1914)
VP candidate for National Democratic Party (1896)
Widowed and back at the family estate in Munfordville, Ky., restoring the place after neglect during the Civil War.
Hale Johnson (August 21, 1847 – November 4, 1902)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1896)
Attorney in Newton, Illinois. Active in regional Republican Party politics but ran for State Senate on the Prohibition ticket in 1882.
Matthew Maguire (June 28, 1850 (some sources have 1855) - January 1, 1917)
VP candidate for Socialist Labor Party (1896)
Allegedly proposed the creation of Labor Day in 1882.
Thomas Edward Watson (September 5, 1856 – September 26, 1922)
VP candidate for People's Party (1896)
Elected to the Georgia General Assembly as a Democrat in 1882.
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)
Banker and insurance agent in Durham, NC. Democrat. Married in 1882.
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)
Living in Minnesota. He wrote Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel in 1883, which is said to have influenced Immanuel Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision (1950)
Henry Brewer Metcalf (April 2, 1829 – October 5, 1904)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1900)
Appointed on the Board of Directors of the newly organized Dolbear Telephine Co. Dec. 1882. Defendant in a trial April 1883 involving patent infringement on a button-making machine. Metcalf won the case.
David Herron Martin (Mar. 28, 1849 - 1933)
VP candidate for United Christian Party (1900)
Editor living in Bellevue, Penn.
Valentine Remmel (March 9, 1853 - May 9, 1929)
VP candidate for Socialist Labor Party (1900)
Working in a glass factory in the Pittsburgh area.
Job Harriman (January 15, 1861 – October 26, 1925)
VP candidate for Social Democratic Party (1900)
Attending Butler University.
Thomas Henry Tibbles (May 22, 1840 – May 14, 1928)
VP candidate for People's Party (aka Populist Party) (1904)
Journalist in Omaha. Married Susette "Bright Eyes" LaFlesche (Omaha), daughter of Joseph "Iron Eye" LaFlesche, June 29, 1882.
George Washington Carroll (April 1, 1855 - December 14, 1935)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1904)
Foreman in his father's saw mill company in Beaumont, Tex.
Benjamin Hanford (1861 – January 24, 1910)
VP candidate for Socialist Party of America (1904, 1908)
Printer in Chicago.
William Wesley Cox (February 5, 1865 — October 29, 1948)
VP candidate for Socialist Labor Party (1904)
Left the family farm and started work in coal mines.
William C. Payne, b. 1867
VP candidate for National Negro Liberty Party (aka National Liberty Party aka Liberty Party aka Civil Liberty Party) (1904)
Teenage laborer on Tappahannock, 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. Involved in Grange activities. In 1883 appointed to the Iowa Railroad Commission.
Samuel Wardell Williams (February 7, 1851 – August 5, 1913)
VP candidate for People's Party (aka Populist Party) (1908)
In 1882 elected to the Indiana House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic Party.
John Temple Graves (November 9, 1856 – August 8, 1925)
VP candidate for Independence Party (aka Independence League aka National Independence League) (1908)
Associate editor of the Jacksonville Union, Florida.
Aaron Sherman Watkins (November 29, 1863 – February 9, 1941)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1908, 1912)
Teenager in Ohio.
Emil Seidel (December 13, 1864 – June 24, 1947)
VP candidate for Socialist Party of America (1912)
Teenager in Milwaukee, Wis.
Hiram Warren Johnson (September 2, 1866 – August 6, 1945)
VP candidate for Progressive Party (aka Bull Moose Party) (1912)
Teenager in Sacramento, Calif.
August Gillhaus (June, 1867 - May 4, 1932)
VP candidate for Socialist Labor Party (aka Industrial Labor Party) (1912, 1920)
Teenager 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)
Teenager in Louisiana.
Ira Landrith (March 23, 1865 – October 11, 1941)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1916)
Teenager in Texas.
George Ross Kirkpatrick (February 24, 1867 – March 23, 1937)
VP candidate for Socialist Party of America (1916)
Student at Allegheny College Preparatory School?
Caleb Leroy Harrison (September 20, 1879 - June 8, 1938)
VP candidate for Socialist Labor Party (1916)
Boy in Pennsylvania.
Maximillian Sebastian Hayes (May 25, 1866 - October 11, 1945)
VP candidate for Farmer-Labor Party (1920)
Family moved from Fremont, Ohio to Cleveland in 1883.
Seymour Stedman (July 4, 1871 – July 9, 1948)
VP candidate for Socialist Party of America (1920)
Child laborer in a Chicago foundry, 1882.
Richard Clarence Barnum (July, 1879 - Aug. 27, 1961)
VP candidate for Single Tax Party (aka National Single Tax Party) (1920)
Boy in Ohio.
William Jervis Hough
VP candidate for American Party (1920)
He was busy being mysterious, even as a little kid.
David Leigh Colvin (January 28, 1880 – September 7, 1959)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1920)
Small boy in 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)
Methodist minister in Texas.
Marie Caroline Brehm (June 30, 1859 – January 21, 1926)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1924)
Moved to Olney, Ill. from Sandusky, Ohio 1883.
John Cromwell Lincoln (July 17, 1866 - May 24, 1959)
VP candidate for Commonwealth Land Party (aka Single Tax Party) (1924)
Teenager in Ohio.
Burton Kendall Wheeler (February 27, 1882 – January 6, 1975)
VP candidate for Progressive Party (aka Independent Progressive Party) (1924)
Born February 27, 1882 in Hudson, Mass.
Wesley Henry Bennington (May 18, 1861 - October 30, 1928)
VP candidate for National Party (aka Greenback Party) (1928)
Student at Ohio Northern University?
John Clinton McGee (June, 1863 - March 31, 1936?)
VP candidate for National Progressive Party (aka Progressive Party aka Bull Moose Party) (1928)
Possibly in Washington, DC where his father is a Post Office clerk.
Simon Peter William Drew (August 6, 1870 - December 12, 1934)
VP candidate for Interracial Independent Political Party (aka National Interracial Party) (1928)
Boy in Margarettsville, NC?
James Hudson Maurer (April 15, 1864 - March 16, 1944)
VP candidate for Socialist Party of America (1928, 1932)
Teenager in Reading, Penn.
James Arthur Edgerton (January 30, 1869 - December 3, 1938)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1928)
Teenager in Ohio.
Jeremiah Daniel Crowley (May 2, 1875 - September 23, 1960)
VP candidate for Socialist Labor Party (1928)
Boy in Onandaga, NY.
Frank Stewart Regan (October 3, 1862 – July 25, 1944)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1932)
Living in Rockford, Ill.
Julius J. Reiter (July 4, 1869 - November 29, 1940)
VP candidate for Farmer-Labor Party (1932)
Teenager in Minnesota.
Otis Lee Spurgeon (April 10, 1880 - April 5, 1942)
VP candidate for Liberty Party (Webb Faction) (aka New Liberty Party aka Liberal Party aka Liberty and Unity Party) (1932)
Small boy in Boone, Iowa.
Florence Garvin (February 27, 1876 - July 10, 1968)
VP candidate for National Party (aka Independent Party aka Greenback Party) (1932)
VP candidate for National Greenback Party (1936)
Girl in Rhode Island.
George A. Nelson (November 15, 1873 – May 4, 1962)
VP candidate for Socialist Party of America (1936)
Boy in Wisconsin.
James Elmer Yates (March 12, 1874 - April 7, 1954)
VP candidate for Greenback Party (aka National Greenback Party) (1940)
Boy in Missouri?
Edgar Vaughn Moorman (January 21, 1878 - August 8, 1942)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (aka New Prohibition Party) (1940)
Boy in Kentucky.
Frank Jefferies (Aug. 4, 1874 - June 14, 1947)
VP candidate for Greenback Party (1944)
Boy in Indiana.
Andrew Nathan Johnson (September 21, 1875 - August 30, 1959)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1944)
Boy in Kentucky.
Charlotta Amanda Spears Bass (February 14, 1874 - April 12, 1969)
VP candidate for Progressive Party (1952)
Girl in South Carolina.
Enoch Arden Holtwick (January 3, 1881- March 28, 1972)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1952)
Boy in Missouri.
John Orville Hopkins (July 19, 1876 - May 31, 1973)
VP candidate for Universal Party (1964)
Boy in Minnesota
Fun facts of the time slot:
1882 Mar. - Depression of 1882–85 begins.
1882 Mar. 18 - Morgan Earp shot and killed whole playing pool.
1882 Mar. 22 - US Congress makes polygamy a felony crime.
1882 Mar. 24 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow died (b. 1807)
1882 Apr. 3 - Jesse James shot and killed by Robert Ford in St. Joseph, Mo.
1882 Apr. 27 - Ralph Waldo Emerson died (b. 1803)
1882 May 6 - Chinese Exclusion Act.
1882 May 23 - Eastern Iowa has six inches of snowfall.
1882 June 16 - Enormous hailstones fell in Dubuque, Iowa. Some of them were reported to contain small living frogs.
1882 June 30 - Charles Guiteau, assassin of President Garfield, is executed by hanging.
1882 July 16 - Mary Todd Lincoln died (b. 1818)
1882 July 22 - Edward Hopper born (d. 1967)
1882 Aug. 8 - Snow falls on Lake Michigan.
1882 Sept. 4 - First commercial electric power plant, New York, NY.
1882 Sept. 5 - First Labor Day.
1882 Oct. 5 - Robert Goddard born (d. 1945)
1882 Oct. 14 - Éamon de Valera born in NYC (d. 1975)
1882 Oct. 20 - Oahspe: A New Bible / by John Ballou Newbrough who claimed to produce it by automatic writing.
1882 Oct. 28 - Two cowboys report seeing a Sasquatch in Idaho.
1882 Dec. 10 - Alexander Gardner died (b. 1821)
1883 Jan. 10 - Samuel Mudd died (b. 1833)
1883 Jan. 16 - Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act.
1883 Jan. 25 - Homer Bone born (d. 1970)
1883 Mar. 4 - Alexander Stephens died (b. 1812)
1883 Apr. 4 - Peter Cooper died, Greenback Party Presidential candidate 1876 (b. 1791)
1883 Apr. 12 - Imogen Cunningham born (d. 1976)
1883 Apr. 13 - Alferd Packer convicted after engaging in cannibalism.
1883 May 23 - Douglas Fairbanks born (d. 1939)
1883 May 24 - Brooklyn Bridge opens.
