A Slice in Third Party Vice-Presidential Time: 1889 July 4-September 19
Here's some fun historical trivia. Between the dates of the birth of Lee Roy Tillman (July 4, 1889) to the death of Donald Kirkpatrick (September 19, 1889) there were 89 Third Party Vice-Presidential Candidates living between the Earth and the sky. By September 1889 twenty of these individuals had already served as VP nominees.
Here's mosaic of this unique group and where they were between July 4 to September 19, 1889--
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
Completed his tenure as Surveyor General of New Mexico Territory and left for Indiana in early Sept. 1889.
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)
Minister Resident and Consul General to Haiti and Charge' d'Affaires for Santo Domingo.
John Quincy Adams II (September 22, 1833 – August 14, 1894)
VP candidate for Straight-Out Democratic Party (1872)
Retired from Massachusetts politics.
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)
Died Sept. 19, 1889 in Syracuse, NY.
Gideon Tabor Stewart (August 7, 1824 - June 10, 1909)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1876)
Attorney in Norwalk, Ohio. Nominated by the Prohibition Party in July to run for the Ohio Supreme Court.
Barzillai Jefferson Chambers (December 5, 1817 – September 16, 1895)
VP candidate for Greenback Party 1880
Farmer in Cleburne, Texas. As the Greenback Party folded he was drawn to the People's Party.
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)
His book was published in 1889-- Our Bishops: A Sketch of the Origin and Growth of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. (Dayton, Ohio: United Brethren Publishing House)
Absolom Madden West (1818 – September 30, 1894)
VP candidate for Greenback Party 1884
Wife Caroline died July 13, 1889 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. Co-editor of a quarterly entitled Frolic.
William Daniel (January 24, 1826 – October 13, 1897)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1884)
Member of the Maryland Temperance Alliance. Was part of organizing at least two Prohibition camp meetings in the summer of 1889.
John A. Colvin (January 8, 1841 - February 15, 1900)
VP candidate for Industrial Reform Party (1888)
Farmer in Kansas. Wrote a long article raking banks, corporations, and the Republican Party over the coals for the Washington View (Washington, DC)
Peter Dinwiddie Wigginton (September 6, 1839 – July 7, 1890)
VP candidate for American Party (1888)
Attorney in San Francisco. On Sept. 4, 1889 Wigginton testified at the Sheriff's hearing regarding the murder of Judge David S. Terry.
William Harrison Thompson Wakefield (December 13, 1834 - July 26, 1913)
VP candidate for United Labor Party (1888)
Editor of the Anti-Monopolist in Council Grove, Kan. and The Jeffersonian, Topeka, Kan. Was an alternate delegate to the local Democratic Party convention.
Charles E. Cunningham (July 1, 1823 – April 21, 1895)
VP candidate for Union Labor Party (1888)
Farmer in Little Rock, Arkansas. Active in the Union Labor 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 which took him to the West Coast in the summer of 1889.
Charles Stuart Welles (February 22, 1848 - February 5, 1927)
VP candidate for Equal Rights Party (1888)
Physician in New York City. Presented his "Tour of the Nile" lecture in September.
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)
Newspaper editor in Waco, Texas. At an editors convention in Detroit in August a colleague accused Cranfill of being drunk on an earlier trip. Cranfill responded that was back when he was a Democrat, before he joined the Prohibition Party. The Detroit Free Press observed: "J.B. Cranfill, of Waco, Tex., wears his hair brushed back from his high, intellectual forehead, has a good, honest face, ruddy mustache and fine general bearing and appearance. He is a great hustler and bound to win every time."
Simon Bolivar Buckner (April 1, 1823 – January 8, 1914)
VP candidate for National Democratic Party (1896)
Governor of Kentucky.
Hale Johnson (August 21, 1847 – November 4, 1902)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1896)
Attorney in Newton, Illinois. Active with 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. With backing from the Farmers Alliance, Watson announced he would make his first run for US Congress in 1890.
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. Made a trip to the Northeast in July.
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)
On a lecture tour promoting the Baconian theory concerning the authorship of Shakespeare's plays.
Henry Brewer Metcalf (April 2, 1829 – October 5, 1904)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1900)
Living in Rhode Island. Joined the Union Party, then the Prohibition Party.
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)
Living in San Francisco.
Thomas Henry Tibbles (May 22, 1840 – May 14, 1928)
VP candidate for People's Party (aka Populist Party) (1904)
Newspaper writer in Omaha, Neb.
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)
In the US Army.
Albert A. King (September 8, 1869 - February 29, 1908)
VP candidate for Continental Party (1904)
Living 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)
Living 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)
Living in Georgia. His wife Mattie died in August 12, 1889.
Aaron Sherman Watkins (November 29, 1863 – February 9, 1941)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1908, 1912)
Admitted to the bar in 1889 and worked with his brother, Charles Wesley Watkins in Ohio.
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)
Attorney in the Bay Area, Calif.
August Gillhaus (June, 1867 - May 4, 1932)
VP candidate for Socialist Labor Party (aka Industrial Labor Party) (1912, 1920)
Living 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)
Wed for less than a month, his bride Corinne died at age 22 in August 1889 in Tennessee.
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 Clevelend Press.
Seymour Stedman (July 4, 1871 – July 9, 1948)
VP candidate for Socialist Party of America (1920)
Working as a custodian by night, by day he began classes at the Northwestern University School of Law.
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.
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)
Published Leaves from the Tree of Life; or Gleanings from the Word of God. (Published by Order of L.L. Pickett, Dangerfield, Texas, Publishing House of the M.E. Church South, Nashville, Tennessee, 1889)
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)
Heard Henry George speak in Cleveland in 1889, sparking his journey into the single-tax movement.
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)
Living in Michigan.
Jeremiah Daniel Crowley (May 2, 1875 - September 23, 1960)
VP candidate for Socialist Labor Party (1928)
Boy in Onondaga, NY.
Lee Roy Tillman (July 4, 1889) - November 30, 1961)
VP candidate for Farmer-Labor Party (1928)
Born July 4, 1889 in Tattnal County, Ga.
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
Thomas Charles O'Brien (June 19, 1887 – November 22, 1951)
VP candidate for Union Party (aka Royal Oak Party aka The Third Party) (1936)
Boy in Boston, Mass.
James Elmer Yates (March 12, 1874 - April 7, 1954)
VP candidate for Greenback Party (aka National Greenback Party) (1940)
Teenager 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 (August 4, 1874 - June 14, 1947)
VP candidate for Greenback Party (1944)
Teenager in Indiana.
Andrew Nathan Johnson (September 21, 1875 - August 30, 1959)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1944)
Teenager 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
Granville Booker Leeke (February 22, 1889 - May 29, 1955)
VP candidate for Greenback Party (1948)
Infant in Pennsylvania.
Charlotta Amanda Spears Bass (February 14, 1874 - April 12, 1969)
VP candidate for Progressive Party (1952)
Teenager in South Carolina.
Enoch Arden Holtwick (January 3, 1881- March 28, 1972)
VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1952)
Boy in Missouri?
Harry Flood Byrd Sr. (June 10, 1887 – October 20, 1966)
VP candidate for America First Party (1952)
Boy in Winchester, Va.
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)
Teenager in Minnesota
Fun facts of the time slot:
1889 July - Widely regarded as a hoax or misunderstanding, a drilling operating in Nampa, Idaho produces a small handmade figurine, a doll, that is alleged to predate the conventional wisdom of human existence in that area.
1889 July 4 - Washington Territory holds first meeting to create a new State Constitution.
1889 July 7 - Over 100 buildings destroyed by fire in Bakersfield, Calif.
1889 July 8 - First issue of the Wall Street Journal.
1889 July 8 - John L. Sullivan defeats Jake Kilrain in last bare-knuckle world champion bout in Mississippi.
1889 July 9 - A racehorse in Wisconsin named "States Rights" died and was buried standing up in a grave.
1889 July 10 - Former First Lady Julia Gardiner Tyler died (b. 1820)
1889 July 17 - Earle Stanley Gardner born (d. 1970)
1889 Aug. 4 - 32 blocks of downtown Spokane, Wash. goes up in flames.
1889 Aug. 23 - First ship to shore wireless message in San Francisco.
1889 Sept. 8 - Robert A. Taft born (d. 1953)
1889 Sept. 16 - Outlaw Bob Younger dies in prison (b. 1853)
