A Slice in Third Party Vice-Presidential Time: 1886 November 21
Here's some fun historical trivia. When the calendar started for November 21, 1886 there were 85 Third Party Vice-Presidential Candidates living between the Earth and the sky until Charles Francis Adams Sr. expired on that day. Fifteen of these individuals had already served as VP nominees.
Here's mosaic of this unique group and where they were on November 21, 1886--
Charles Francis Adams Sr. (August 18, 1807 – November 21, 1886)
VP candidate for Free Soil Party 1848
Died in Boston, Mass.
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.
George Washington Julian (May 5, 1817 – July 7, 1899)
VP candidate for Free Soil Party 1852
Surveyor General of New Mexico Territory. Worked hard to reform and fix years of public land grabbing by speculators and earned the nickname "Old Malaria" by his enemies. Known for being immune to bribery.
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)
In France as part of a European visit/lecture tour.
John Quincy Adams II (September 22, 1833 – August 14, 1894)
VP candidate for Straight-Out Democratic Party (1872)
His father, Charles Francis Adams Sr., died in Boston.
John Russell (September 20, 1822 - November 4, 1912)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1872)
Methodist minister, living in Marquette, Mich.
Samuel Fenton Cary (February 18, 1814 – September 29, 1900)
VP candidate for Greenback Party 1876
Attorney in Cincinnati and active on the lecture circuits supporting prohibition.
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.
Barzillai Jefferson Chambers (December 5, 1817 – September 16, 1895)
VP candidate for Greenback Party 1880
Farmer in Cleburne, Texas and was easing away from political activity.
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 and said to be writing a political history of Kansas.
Henry Adams Thompson (March 23, 1837 – July 8, 1920)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1880)
Had just left the office of President of Otterbein University and probably began work on a new book.
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)
Feminist activist in the Bay Area, Calif.
William Daniel (January 24, 1826 – October 13, 1897)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1884)
Member 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)
Attorney in San Francisco. Had just been defeated in his bid to be elected Governor of California in the American Party.
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. Had just been defeated running for Governor in the Agricultural Wheel Party.
John Anderson Brooks (June 3, 1836 – February 3, 1897)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1888)
A minister in Kansas City, Mo. and on the Prohibition lecture circuit.
Charles Stuart Welles (February 22, 1848 - February 5, 1927)
VP candidate for Equal Rights Party (1888)
Physician in New York City.
Charles Horatio Matchett (May 15, 1843 – October 23, 1919)
VP candidate for Socialist Labor Party (1892)
Living in Brooklyn and working as an electrician.
James Gaven Field (February 24, 1826 – October 12, 1901)
VP candidate for People's Party (1892)
Farmer and attorney in Virginia.
James Britton Buchanan Boone Cranfill (September 12, 1858 – December 28, 1942)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1892)
Editor of the Advance-Sun in Gatesville, Tex. Had recently left the Democratic Party and helped organize the regional Prohibition Party. Was preparing to move to Waco, Tex.
Simon Bolivar Buckner (April 1, 1823 – January 8, 1914)
VP candidate for National Democratic Party (1896)
Buckner was running for Governor as a Democrat for the 1887 election.
Hale Johnson (August 21, 1847 – November 4, 1902)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1896)
Attorney in Newton, Illinois. Had just been defeated in a race for US Congress as a member of the Prohibition Party.
Matthew Maguire (June 28, 1850 (some sources have 1855) - January 1, 1917)
VP candidate for Socialist Labor Party (1896)
Living in New York City?
Thomas Edward Watson (September 5, 1856 – September 26, 1922)
VP candidate for People's Party (1896)
Attorney in Georgia.
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.
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)
Representative-elect to the Minnesota House of Representatives as an Independent.
Henry Brewer Metcalf (April 2, 1829 – October 5, 1904)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1900)
Serving in the Rhode Island Senate as a Republican. Addressed the Newport WCTU in March 1886.
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)
Moved to San Francisco in 1886.
Thomas Henry Tibbles (May 22, 1840 – May 14, 1928)
VP candidate for People's Party (aka Populist Party) (1904)
On tour of Europe.
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)
Working as a brickmaker 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)
Teenage laborer on Tappahannock, Va.?
Albert A. King (September 8, 1869 - February 29, 1908)
VP candidate for Continental Party (1904)
Teenager in Missouri?
Lorenzo Stephen Coffin (April 29, 1823 - January 17, 1915)
VP candidate for United Christian Party (1908)
Farmer near Fort Dodge, Iowa. Member of the Iowa Railroad Commission.
Samuel Wardell Williams (February 7, 1851 – August 5, 1913)
VP candidate for People's Party (aka Populist Party) (1908)
In 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. Had lost a Democratic nomination for US Congress.
Aaron Sherman Watkins (November 29, 1863 – February 9, 1941)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1908, 1912)
Recently graduated from Ohio Northern University.
Emil Seidel (December 13, 1864 – June 24, 1947)
VP candidate for Socialist Party of America (1912)
In Berlin, Germany to learn the craft of woodcarving.
Hiram Warren Johnson (September 2, 1866 – August 6, 1945)
VP candidate for Progressive Party (aka Bull Moose Party) (1912)
Earlier in the year had left as a student at UC Berkeley, married, and had an infant son. Returned to his father's office to study law.
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)
Businessman in Louisiana
Ira Landrith (March 23, 1865 – October 11, 1941)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1916)
Attending Trinity University in Texas?
George Ross Kirkpatrick (February 24, 1867 – March 23, 1937)
VP candidate for Socialist Party of America (1916)
Student at Ohio Wesleyan University?
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)
Working on the staff of the Cleveland Press.
Seymour Stedman (July 4, 1871 – July 9, 1948)
VP candidate for Socialist Party of America (1920)
Teenage laborer in Chicago.
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)
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)
Outcast from from mainstream Methodism, he become more involved with the Holiness Movement.
Marie Caroline Brehm (June 30, 1859 – January 21, 1926)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1924)
Art teacher in Olney, Ill.
John Cromwell Lincoln (July 17, 1866 - May 24, 1959)
VP candidate for Commonwealth Land Party (aka Single Tax Party) (1924)
Student at Ohio State University?
Burton Kendall Wheeler (February 27, 1882 – January 6, 1975)
VP candidate for Progressive Party (aka Independent Progressive Party) (1924)
Boy in Massachusetts.
Verne La Rue Reynolds (March 7, 1884 - September 16, 1959)
VP candidate for Socialist Labor Party (1924)
Boy in Kansas?
Wesley Henry Bennington (May 18, 1861 - October 30, 1928)
VP candidate for National Party (aka Greenback Party) (1928)
Attorney in Topeka, Kan.?
John Clinton McGee (June, 1863 - March 31, 1936?)
VP candidate for National Progressive Party (aka Progressive Party aka Bull Moose Party) (1928)
Part of a Wild West show?
Simon Peter William Drew (August 6, 1870 - December 12, 1934)
VP candidate for Interracial Independent Political Party (aka National Interracial Party) (1928)
Teenager in Margarettsville, NC?
James Hudson Maurer (April 15, 1864 - March 16, 1944)
VP candidate for Socialist Party of America (1928, 1932)
Living in Pennsylvania.
James Arthur Edgerton (January 30, 1869 - December 3, 1938)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1928)
Student at National Normal University (Lebanon, Ohio)
Jeremiah Daniel Crowley (May 2, 1875 - September 23, 1960)
VP candidate for Socialist Labor Party (1928)
Boy in Onondaga, 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)
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.
Francis Benjamin Hemenway (June 21, 1885 - July 22, 1949)
VP candidate for Liberty Party (1932)
Boy in Iowa.
Victor Clifford Tisdal Sr. (January 3, 1886 - May 18, 1948)
VP candidate for Jobless Party (1932)
Boy in Fannin County, Tex.
George A. Nelson (November 15, 1873 – May 4, 1962)
VP candidate for Socialist Party of America (1936)
Teenager in Wisconsin.
Claude Alonzo Watson (June 26, 1885 – January 3, 1978)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (aka National Prohibition Party aka Commonwealth Party) (1936)
Boy in Michigan
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.
Harry A. Romer (November 1, 1884 - January 22, 1965)
VP candidate for America First Party (1944)
VP candidate for Christian Nationalist Party (1948)
Boy in Ohio
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?
Edward Kirby Meador (November 6, 1885 - December 25, 1981)
VP candidate for Greenback Party (1956, 1960)
Boy in Virginia.
Edwin Maurice Cooper (May 12, 1885 - February 26, 1971)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1956)
Boy in Nebraska
John Orville Hopkins (July 19, 1876 - May 31, 1973)
VP candidate for Universal Party (1964)
Boy in Minnesota
Fun facts of the time slot:
1886 Nov. 21 - The schooner Long Island drifts to shore at Sea Cliff, Long Island, NY with no one on board. Blood on the deck indicates violence.
1886 Nov. 21 - The body of former President Chester Alan Arthur lies in state at his home in New York before burial the next day.
