Henry Adams Thompson

Henry Adams Thompson, March 23, 1837 (Stormstown, Penn.) – July 8, 1920 (Dayton, Ohio)

VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1880)

Running mate with nominee: Neal Dow (1804-1897)
Popular vote: 10,364 (0.11%)                       
Electoral vote: 0/369

The campaign:

In their third run for the presidency the Prohibition Party continued to slowly build their numbers. Except for a lone and small aside supporting women's right to vote, the 1880 Prohibition Party platform had a single-issue anti-alcohol focus.

Although placing a very distant fourth place and falling short of cracking even 1% in any of the 18 states where they were on the ballot, they would eventually endure where other third parties of the day would vanish.

Election history:
1874 - US House of Representatives (Ohio) (Prohibition) special election - defeated
1874 - US House of Representatives (Ohio) (Prohibition) - defeated
1877 - Ohio Governor (Prohibition) - defeated
1900 - US House of Representatives (Ohio) (Union Reform Party) - defeated
1908 - US House of Representatives (Ohio) (Prohibition) - defeated
1910 - Ohio Governor (Prohibition) - defeated

Other occupations: mathematics teacher, author, editor, President of Otterbein University 1872-1886, Director of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society 1885

Buried: Otterbein Cemetery (Westerville, Ohio)

Notes:
Member of the United Brethren Church
Was involved with the abolition movement and the Republican Party prior to joining the Prohibition Party in 1874.
Chairman of the Prohibition National Convention 1876.
Sometimes confused with Indiana prohibitionist Samuel Thompson.
"He regarded campaigning as a way of educating the public rather than a path to power."--Otterbein University webpage, 2019
Some sources list 1887 rather than 1877 for Thompson's first race for Ohio Governor.

Samuel Clarke Pomeroy

Samuel Clarke Pomeroy, January 3, 1816 (Southampton, Mass.) – August 27, 1891 (Whitinsville, Mass.)

VP candidate for Anti-Masonic Party (aka American Party aka Anti-Secret Society Party aka National American Party) (1880)

Running mate with nominee: John W. Phelps (1813-1885)
Popular vote: 1,045 (0.01%)                       
Electoral vote: 0/369

The campaign:

The revised and resurrected version of the old Anti-Masonic Party called to "Expose, withstand, and remove secret societies, Freemasonry in particular and other anti-Christian movements, in order to save the churches of Christ from being depraved." They agreed with the Prohibition Party on the alcohol issue and with the Greenbacks on currency.

Apparently Pomeroy took no active part in the campaign.

The election results for the Phelps/Pomeroy ticket didn't exactly set the world on fire. In some states their popular vote was in the single digits.

Election history:
1852-1853 - Massachusetts House of Representatives
1856 - Republican Vice-Presidential nomination - defeated
1858-1859 - Mayor of Atchison, Kan.
1861-1873 - US Senator (Kan.) (Republican)
1868 - Republican Vice-Presidential nomination - defeated
1872 - US Senator (Kan.) (Republican) - defeated

Other occupations: teacher, speculator, newspaper publisher, President of Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad

Buried: Forest Hills Cemetery (Jamaica Plain, Mass.)

Notes:
Involved with the New England Emigrant Aid Company, bringing anti-slavery settlers to Kansas.
Buried in the same cemetery as e.e. cummings, Eugene O'Neill, and Anne Sexton.
Accused of bribery during his attempt to be re-elected to the US Senate. The case was never resolved in court.
Said to be the inspiration for Mark Twain's "Sen. Dilworthy" character in his book The Gilded Age  
 (published Dec. 1873)
Was nominated for President in 1884 by the American Prohibition Party (formerly known as the Anti-Masonic Party) but Pomeroy dropped out of the race and endorsed the Prohibition Party candidate John St. John.
Supported Salmon P. Chase over Abraham Lincoln in the 1864 Republican primary season.
Known as "Subsidy Pom"
Died from kidney disease.

Barzillai Jefferson Chambers

Barzillai Jefferson Chambers, December 5, 1817 (Montgomery County, Ky.) – September 16, 1895 (Cleburne, Tex.)

VP candidate for Greenback Party 1880
Running mate with nominee: James B. Weaver (1833-1912)
Popular vote: 308,649 (3.35%)              
Electoral vote: 0/369

The campaign:
By 1880 the Greenbacks had widened their appeal, adding urban and industrial laborers to their ranks. Weaver and Chambers set out to actively campaign but shortly after the convention the 62-year old Chambers fell from a train in Kosse, Tex., broke some ribs, and had to curtail his political activities as he was bedridden for some weeks.

Chambers represented a more extreme wing of the party, a faction that had already held their own convention (Union Greenback Party) nominating him for VP. When re-unification took place with the regular Greenback Party, Chambers retained the second-place spot. Members of the Socialist Labor Party also came on board.

Along with their historical single-issue monetary policy, the Greenbackers also supported Chinese labor exclusion, women's suffrage, a graduated income tax, and the 8-hour workday. The Party was listed under slightly different names state by state.

Although the Garfield-Hancock popular vote was incredibly close, the vote was more lopsided in the Electoral College. The Greenbacks did not appear to be spoilers in the outcome. On the ballot in all but 4 states, the Greenbackers polled the strongest in Texas (11.34%), Iowa (10.11%), Michigan (9.89%), Kansas (9.87%), Missouri (8.84%) and West Virginia (8.05%)

Election history:
1847 - District Surveyor of the Robertson Land District (Tex.)
1871? - Alderman (Cleburne, Tex.) (Democratic)
1876 - Texas State Legislature (Democratic) - defeated
1878 - Texas State Legislature (Greenback Party) - defeated

Other occupations: Captain in Texas War of Independence, surveyor, attorney, soldier in Confederate Army (Tex.), delegate to the Texas Constitutional Convention of 1875, newspaper publisher, chairman of the Texas Greenback Party 1882, 

Buried: Cleburne Memorial Cemetery (Cleburne, Tex.)

Notes:
Joined the Greenback Party in 1877.
Was a Freemason.
Belonged to the Christian Church.
Sometimes listed as "Benjamin J. Chambers"