Gideon Tabor Stewart

Gideon Tabor Stewart, August 7, 1824 (Johnstown, NY) - June 10, 1909 (Pasadena, Calif.)

VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1876)

Running mate with nominee: Green Clay Smith (1826-1895)
Popular vote: 9522 (0.08%)                      
Electoral vote: 0/369

The campaign:

In addition to prohibition of alcohol, the Party also extended the concept into other areas in their platform such as gambling and polygamy. They supported an official "national observance of the Christian Sabbath." The platform called for using the Bible in public schools. They also called for a separation of Church and State which seems at odds with some of their other platform statements.

The popular vote total appears to vary according to the source. They were on the ballot in 18 states, with their best showing by far apparently in Nebraska with 2.99%, the only state where they polled above 1%.

Election history:
1850-1856 - Auditor of Huron County, Ohio (Whig)
1869 - Ohio Supreme Court - defeated
1870 - Ohio Supreme Court - defeated 
1871 - Governor of Ohio (Prohibition) - defeated
1872 - US House of Representatives (Straight-Out Democratic) - defeated
1873 - Governor of Ohio (Prohibition) - defeated
1874 - Ohio Supreme Court - defeated
1879 - Governor of Ohio (Prohibition) - defeated
1881 - Ohio Supreme Court - defeated
1886 - Ohio Supreme Court - defeated
1889 - Ohio Supreme Court - defeated 
1892 - Prohibition Party nominee for US President - defeated
1893 - Prohibition Party nomination for Governor of Ohio - defeated 
1896 - Ohio Supreme Court - defeated
1899 - Ohio Supreme Court - defeated

Other occupations: attorney, newspaper publisher, author

Buried: Woodlawn Cemetery (Norwalk, Ohio)

Notes:
Head of the Good Templars of Ohio in the 1850s
Was a delegate at the formation of the Prohibition Party 1869
Declined the Prohibition Party presidential nomination 1876, 1880, 1884.
Was a Republican during the Civil War.
May have run for Congress under the Straight-Out Democratic Party label in 1872 but was already a member of the Prohibition Party by then.

Donald Kirkpatrick

Donald Kirkpatrick, September 9, 1830 (Salina, NY) - September 19, 1889 (Syracuse, NY)

VP candidate for American National Party (aka Anti-Masonic Party aka Anti-Secret Society Party) (1876)

Running mate with nominee: James B. Walker (1805-1887)
Popular vote: 463 (0.01%)                     
Electoral vote: 0/369

The campaign:
The American National Party was basically the political arm of the Presbyterian-based National Christian Association and to some degree was a descendant of the Anti-Masonic Party.

Their platform started with:

"That ours is a Christian and not a heathen nation, and that the God of the Christian Scriptures is the author of civil government"

And from that foundation it supported prohibition, equal rights for all Americans, the elimination of secret societies, the Bible should be taught alongside the sciences in schools, justice for Native Americans, ending monopolies, and eradicating the Electoral College.

The Party was on the ballot in six Midwestern states (Kansas, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Ohio) but didn't poll over 1% in any of them. Their best showing was in Illinois with 0.03%. In Ohio they ran under the Anti-Masonic Party name but in the rest they were listed as Anti-Secret Society Party.

Election history: none

Other occupations: President of the National Christian Association, salt manufacturer

Buried: Oakwood Cemetery (Syracuse, NY)

Notes:
Member of the Anti-Secret Society Association.
His father William Kirkpatrick (1769-1832) served in the US House as a Democratic-Republican 1807-1809.
His twin brother William (1830-1900) was a major donor to the Onondaga Historical Association and the twins' papers are currently housed in the archives.

Samuel Fenton Cary

Samuel Fenton Cary, February 18, 1814 (Cincinnati, Ohio) – September 29, 1900 (Cincinnati, Ohio)

VP candidate for Greenback Party 1876
Running mate with nominee: Peter Cooper (1791-1883)
Popular vote: 83,726 (0.99%)             
Electoral vote: 0/369

The campaign:
The Greenback Party was initially an agrarian response to the economic Panic of 1873. It could be argued it was the ancestor of the later Populist Party boom of the 1890s. Philanthropist Peter Cooper, the Party's nominee, was 85 years old at the time of the campaign.

The 1876 vote results was one of the most messed up affairs in Presidential election history, practically starting a second Civil War. There was one state where the Cooper/Cary ticket were possible spoilers-- Indiana, the very place where the Party was born. The tally there was Tilden 213,526 (48.65% and 15 electoral votes), Hayes 208,011 (47.39%) and Cooper  17,233 (3.93%).

Cooper and Cary were on the ballot in 18 states with their strongest showing being in Kansas (6.26%). In subsequent elections the Greenbacks would add urban and industrial laborers to their ranks. 

Election history:
1867-1869 - US House of Representatives (Ohio) (Independent Republican)
1868 - US House of Representatives (Ohio) (Democratic) - defeated
1875 - Lieutenant Governor of Ohio (Democratic) - defeated

Other occupations: attorney, Ohio Paymaster General during US-Mexican War earning him the title of "General Cary", prohibitionist and anti-slavery and rights of labor lecturer and author, Collector of Internal Revenue (Ohio 1st Dist.), Chief of Staff for three Ohio governors 

Buried: Spring Grove Cemetery (Cincinnati, Ohio)

Notes:
Cary was the only Republican in the House to vote against impeaching President Andrew Johnson.
Became the Greenback Party VP nominee after Sen. Newton Booth (Calif.) turned it down.
Declined a position on the Ohio Supreme Court.
Delegate for Lincoln at the 1864 Republican Convention.
The city of Cary, NC is named in his honor.