George Washington Carroll

George Washington Carroll, April 1, 1855 (Mansfield, La.) - December 14, 1935 (Beaumont, Tex.)

VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1904)

Running mate with nominee: Silas Comfort Swallow (1839-1930)
Popular vote: 259,102 (1.92%)
Electoral vote: 0/476

The campaign:

The 1904 Prohibition Party platform was chiefly anti-alcohol, but they also made brief mentions in support of the initiative and referendum process, an "omnipartisan commission" to deal with tariffs, and direct election of US Senators.

The Prohibition Party officials behind the scenes were involved in some especially nasty charges and counter-charges involving misappropriation of funds and treachery to the cause. This backdrop of conflict within the Party didn't seem to slow down Silas "The Fighting Parson" Swallow, who ran a vigorous campaign.

You would think that a name like "Silas Comfort Swallow" would be a liability for a presidential candidate of the Prohibition Party, but in fact the Party had their third best polling in their long history. It was their best national result in the 20th century. They placed 4th after the Socialist Party of America.

On the ballot in all but five states, the Swallow/Carroll ticket had their strongest showing in Oregon (4.22%)

Election history:
1902 - Governor of Texas (Prohibition Party) - defeated
190? - Alderman, Beaumont, Tex.

Other occupations: lumber and oil business,

Buried: Magnolia Cemetery (Beaumont, Tex.)

Notes:
Some sources have April 11, 1855 as his birthdate.
Family moved to Beaumont, Tex. in 1868.
His oil strike turned Beaumont into a boom town, which also brought widespread alcohol abuse and
 influenced Carroll to make political amends for a problem he knew he helped create.
Baptist.
Helped fund the YMCA building in Beaumont, where he died in a small room age 80.
Led raids on barrooms and gambling joints.
By 1923 he was no longer wealthy, having given away his fortune to civic causes.

Benjamin Hanford

Benjamin Hanford, 1861 (Cleveland, Ohio) – January 24, 1910 (Brooklyn, NY)

VP candidate for Socialist Party of America (1904, 1908)

Running mate with nominee (1904, 1908): Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926)
Popular vote (1904): 402,810 (2.98%)
Popular vote (1908): 420,852 (2.83%)   
Electoral vote (1904): 0/476
Electoral vote (1908): 0/483

The campaign (1904):

The Debs/Hanford ticket placed a strong third, on all of the ballots save for South Carolina. They polled from 8.90% in California, 8.81% in Montana, 8.45% in Oregon, and above 5% in seven more states mostly in the West. In one of those contests could they have been considered spoilers.

The campaign (1908):

Hanford, who was considered an effective speaker, was sidelined during a good deal of the campaign by his fragile health while Debs whistle-stopped aboard the Red Special.

Once again the Debs/Hanford ticket did well in the West with their top three states being Nevada (8.57%), Montana (8.51%), and Oklahoma (8.47%), and above 5% in six more states. This time they did act as spoilers giving Taft Montana but it made no difference in the national outcome.

Election history:
1897 - Brooklyn Borough President (NY) (Socialist Labor Party) - defeated
1898 - Governor of New York (Socialist Labor Party) - defeated
1900 - Governor of New York (Social Democratic Party) - defeated
1901 - Mayor of New York (Social Democratic Party) - defeated

Other occupations: printer, author, lecturer

Buried: ?

Notes:
If elected in 1908 he would have died less than two years into his term.
The earliest third party example of running the same ticket two elections in a row.
He was defeated for NY Governor in 1898 by Theodore Roosevelt.
Joined the Socialist Labor Party ca. 1893 but eventually was part of the huge migration to the Social
 Democratic Party ca. 1899-1900.
While still in the SLP, once took part in a violent brawl when rival Socialists stormed the SLP HQ.
"Not only do I owe my life to the Socialist Movement. Until I joined that Movement I had never lived."--Ben Hanford Jan. 1909

Thomas Henry Tibbles

Thomas Henry Tibbles, May 22, 1840 (Washington County, Ohio) – May 14, 1928 (Omaha, Neb.)

VP candidate for People's Party (aka Populist Party) (1904)

Running mate with nominee: Thomas E. Watson (1856-1922)
Popular vote: 114,070 (0.84%)   
Electoral vote: 0/476

The campaign:

The People's Party was reorganized, with the result being it was serving as a political vehicle for Thomas Watson, the VP running mate from 1896. Watson's running mate was Thomas H. Tibbles which seemed an unlikely alliance since Tibbles had a strong record of abolitionist activity and championing Native American rights while Watson was becoming increasingly xenophobic and promoting white supremacy.

Most of the old Populists had joined one of the major parties, which were co-opting policies originally proposed by the People's Party. William Jennings Bryan himself said that a vote for the Watson/Tibbles ticket was a vote for Theodore Roosevelt.

In Spokane, Wash. Tibbles predicted a financial crash by 1906. He was slightly off, the brief Panic of 1907 took place three years later.

Although their final poll numbers were dismal the Watson/Tibbles ticket did well in their home states. In Georgia they almost placed second with 17.28%, and Nebraska they finished third with 9.09%. Other states where they made respectable percentages for a third party: Alabama (4.64%), Florida (4.15%), Texas (3.45%), Nevada (2.84%), Mississippi (2.55%), and Montana (2.36%).

Election history: none.

Other occupations: author, journalist, Native American rights activist, Methodist preacher, farmer, novelist

Buried: Bellevue Cemetery (Bellevue, Neb.)

Notes:
As a teenager was one of John Brown's group under the command of James Henry Lane in Bleeding
 Kansas. Was captured, sentenced to hang, but escaped.
In his role as a journalist he brought special attention to the case of Standing Bear, also to the
 massacre at Wounded Knee.
Married Susette "Bright Eyes" LaFlesche.
His family moved to Illinois in 1845.
Tibbles' book Buckskin and Blanket Days was read by Louis L'Amour in 1958.

William Wesley Cox

William Wesley Cox, February 5, 1865 (Effingham, Ill.) — October 29, 1948 (St. Louis, Mo.)

VP candidate for Socialist Labor Party (1904)

Running mate with nominee: Charles Hunter Corregan (1860-1946)
Popular vote: 33,454 (0.25%)   
Electoral vote: 0/476

The campaign:

The Socialist Labor Party platform of 1904 was a short document serving more as a general mission statement rather than providing details on specific policies. An example: "We hold that the existing contradiction between the theory of democratic government and the fact of a despotic economic system of the private ownership of the natural and social opportunities divides the people into two classes, the Capitalist Class and the Working Class; throws society into the  convulsions of the Class Struggle, and perverts Government to the exclusive benefit of the Capitalist Class."

VP candidate Cox "spent 5 months in Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Missouri, speaking every evening in open air."

SLP's sectarian leader Daniel De Leon, known for not suffering fools gladly, praised the Corregan/Cox ticket--"A vote under the Arm and Hammer of the Socialist Labor Party, a vote for Corregan and Cox and the S.L.P. ticket straight, is a vote that will help to clear the path of the capitalist and fakir vermin that now clogs Labor’s progress and renders the progress backward."

Corregan/Cox were on the ballot in 18 states but only cracked 1% with Washington State (1.10%).

Election history:
1898 - US House of Representatives (Ill.) (Socialist Labor Party) - defeated
1900 - Lt. Governor of Illinois (Socialist Labor Party) - defeated
1902 - US House of Representatives (Ill.) (Socialist Labor Party) - defeated
1914 - US House of Representatives (Mo.) (Socialist Labor Party) - defeated
1916 - Missouri Secretary of State (Socialist Labor Party) - defeated
1918 - US Senate (Mo.) (Socialist Labor Party) - defeated
1920 - US President (Socialist Labor Party) - defeated
1922 - US Senate (Mo.) (Socialist Labor Party) - defeated
1924 - Governor of Missouri (Socialist Labor Party) - defeated
1926 - US Senate (Mo.) (Socialist Labor Party) - defeated
1928 - US Senate (Mo.) (Socialist Labor Party) - defeated
1930 - Missouri State Senate (Socialist Labor Party) - defeated
1932 - Governor of Missouri (Socialist Labor Party) - defeated
1934 - US Senate (Mo.) (Socialist Labor Party) - defeated
1936 - Governor of Missouri (Socialist Labor Party) - defeated
1940 - Governor of Missouri (Socialist Labor Party) - defeated
1944 - US Senate (Mo.) (Socialist Labor Party) - defeated

Other occupations: coal miner, brick-maker, Methodist/Church of God/Christian Church preacher, interior decorator

Buried: Sunset Memorial Park and Mausoleum (Affton, Mo.)

Notes:
Member of ACLU
In his 1934 race for the US Senate he was defeated by Harry Truman.
Lived in Collinsville, Ill. in 1904.
PoliticalGraveyard.com includes Cox in the category of "Politicans Who Lost The Most Elections"
Became an agnostic and joined the SLP in 1898
Died at his home as a result of a fall.

Albert A. King

Albert A. King, September 8, 1869 (Springfield, Mo.) - February 29, 1908 (Barry County, Mo.)

VP candidate for Continental Party (1904)

Running mate with nominee: Austin Holcomb (1867-1942)
Popular vote: 826 (0.08% in Illinois only)   
Electoral vote: 0/476

The campaign:

The Continental Party was comprised of Democrats who were discontented with William Jennings Bryan but did not want to join 1904 nominee Alton Parker and "follow the democratic party into Wall street."

After the initial nominees both declined the honor, the Party substituted with the Holcomb/King ticket, which was possibly one of the youngest pairs in US presidential election history with both of them being in their 30s.

Their platform was fairly centrist but they did propose changing the Electoral College by giving each Congressional district a single electoral vote.

The ironically named Continental Party was on the ballot only in Illinois where they ran a slate of non-politicians for statewide and Cook County offices, none of them cracking more than 0.10% in the results.

Election history: none

Other occupations: farmer

Buried: Horner Cemetery (Cassville, Mo.)

Notes:
I am reasonably sure I have located the correct Albert A. King, but not 100%.
Lived in Purdy, Missouri.
"Oct. 20, 1906: Purdy News: A. A. King was badly hurt last week, while trying to catch a bott fly from under one of his horses, the horse kicked him, making a bad wound under his right eye. His jaw was very sore."
If he had been elected in 1904 King would have died in office.

William Carter Payne

William Carter Payne, December, 1869 (Warrenton, Va.) - ?

VP candidate for National Negro Liberty Party (aka National Liberty Party aka Liberty Party aka Civil Liberty Party) (1904)

Running mate with nominee: George Edwin Taylor (1857-1925)
Popular vote: ? (0%)             
Electoral vote: 0/476

The campaign:

The historic first African American ticket of Taylor-Payne had a rocky beginning and an unfortunate electoral result, but can be counted as one of the most prophetic parties of the era.

The Party's original vice-presidential nominee who served as a deputy sheriff in Memphis, was killed in the line of duty. This was followed by the first presidential nominee (William Thomas Scott) being arrested and jailed on several charges. A rough start for a new party and for replacement nominees Taylor and Payne.

The Party's platform included calls for DC home rule, universal suffrage, government control of transportation to guarantee equal access for all citizens, anti-lynching laws, additional black regiments in the military, and Federal protection of civil rights.

An interesting side story here. A competing African American group called the National Negro Lincoln Party was repudiated by their own vice-presidential nominee Judge John Jones, who rejected his candidacy and endorsed the Republican ticket in no uncertain terms.

The Taylor-Payne ticket failed to be placed on any ballots but a considerable write-in campaign was waged. The number of votes they received had not been recorded.

Election history: ?

Other occupations: teacher, cabin steward aboard USS Dixie during Spanish-American War, author, cook

Buried: ?

Notes:
Lived in Warrenton, Va. in 1904
Served in the Army in 1887 and later the Navy.
Author of Cruise of the U.S.S. Dixie; or, On board with the Maryland boys in the Spanish-American
  war. A narrative (1899) and the proceeds from the sale of the book were to go to establishing an
  industrial school in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
Attended Wayland Seminary in Washington, DC.
Was considered an Independent Republican.
Also called Capt. Payne.