Seymour Frieman

Seymour Frieman

VP candidate for National Civil Rights Party (aka Civil Rights Party) (1964)

Running mate with nominee: Grady O'Cummings III (1932-1996)
Popular vote: ? (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

Here is how some media outlets announced the ticket of the National Civil Rights Party in Oct. 1963, with a focus on ethnic origin rather than policy:

A 33-year-old Negro Roman Catholic with an Irish name has been selected at New York as the presidential candidate of the new national Civil Rights party. Grady O'Cummings III, national chairman of the party, was nominated in New York. An active Democrat, he helped organize the JFK Democratic club in East Harlem and a Democratic club in Brooklyn, his home. Chosen to run as vice president was Seymour Frieman, a Jew, also of Brooklyn.

O'Cummings initially ran in the Democratic Party primaries but essentially left the Democrats in order to form the National Civil Rights Party. His intention was to create a multiracial party that would appeal to "liberal whites" as well as disenfranchised populations. His other platform issues included a military invasion of Cuba and North Vietnam, turn Ellis and Alcatraz islands into Federal hospitals for drug addicts, and stop all foreign aid for any "Red" country.

He told reporters he was ending active campaigning for the Presidency in March, 1964 in order to pursue a seat in the US House. However, more than a month later he was still electioneering for the White House as a write-in for the Democratic primary in New Jersey. If the O'Cummings/Frieman ticket had won in 1964, there would have been two major Constitutional problems: O'Cummings was under the age of 35, and both candidates were residents of the same state.

O'Cummings was reported to have been the victim of a heart attack, dying at a premature age in Nov. 1969. His obituary even appeared in the New York Times. But four months later it all was revealed to be hoax. When he re-emerged O'Cummings said he was hiding out in Buffalo, NY, "I had to get out because I was trying to protect my family. My wife, Winnie, was assaulted by four Black Panthers, and it made me very angry. I didn’t go to the police because I am not an informer and didn’t want to get involved."

He seems to have been a sporadic Presidential contender. He sought the Democratic nomination in 1968, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988. Shortly before his real death on June 2, 1996, he had filed with the FEC for President. He also ran for other offices and in fact had been hospitalized while running the primary for Salisbury, Md. City Council less than two months before his death.

Meanwhile, there is no other information regarding Mr. Frieman.

Election history: ?

Other occupations: ?

Buried: ?

Notes:
Another variant of his name could be Seymour Friedman.

Ramona Frances Crowell and Phyllis Ada Diller

Ramona Frances Crowell, December 6, 1926 (Alameda, Calif.) -

Phyllis Ada Diller, July 17, 1917 (Lima, Ohio) – August 20, 2012 (Los Angeles, Calif.)

VP candidate for Independent (1964)

Running mate with nominee: John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (1917-1993)
Popular vote: 0 (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

Initially started partly as a merchandising gimmick for Jazz artist Dizzy Gillespie's album Dizzy For President in 1963, the marketing campaign did turn into a political campaign of sorts as social events were changing rapidly. Dizzy allowed the effort to expand because, in his words, "The proceeds from the sale of buttons went to CORE, SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and I could threaten Democrats with a loss of votes and swing them to a more reasonable position on civil rights."

A "John Birks Society" was formed, a takeoff on the John Birch Society and a play on Dizzy's real name, John Birks Gillespie. After an unsuccessful attempt of getting his name on the California ballot, an energetic write-in campaign was waged.

Dizzy promised to place several of his fellow Jazz musicians as well as Malcolm X in various governmental offices. The White House would be renamed the Blues House. He also advocated national health, recognition of Red China (as it was known on those days), and replace income tax with a national lottery.

Jazz artist Louis Jordan had recorded his famous "Jordan For President" song during the 1952 election, I could be wrong but I do not believe Jordan had named a running mate in that race. In Dizzy's case, there were two people named as his VP-- depending on what source you read-- Ramona Crowell and Phyllis Diller.

Crowell, a housewife in Concord, Calif. at the time, was named as his running mate in the press as early as Feb. 1964. She had been active as the producer of the Dizzy Gillespie for President T-shirts and was one of the campaign managers. In later years she recalled her potential office kept changing back and forth from Vice-President to Press Secretary and back again. It was a pretty freewheeling political endeavor to say the least.

Crowell has the distinction, as part of the Assiniboine people, of being the first Indigenous American woman on a national ticket. Since third parties are generally the leaders in having historically disenfranchised people serving as nominees before the mainstream political parties are willing to take the social risk, it is nothing short of amazing that the first Indigenous American on a Presidential ticket was Charles Curtis (1860-1936), a Republican who was elected Vice-President in 1928 with Hoover and was defeated for re-election in 1932. Curtis, born in Kansas, was a member of the Kaw Nation.

In an interview with Down Beat late in the campaign Dizzy apparently said he had approached comedian Phyllis Diller with the idea of being the running mate, although her response was never made public. Also on Sept. 9, 1964 he said Diller was his VP during a hectic news conference.

The Gillespie/Crowell-Diller ticket no doubt garnered a number of write-in votes in different combinations, but they have not been recorded.

In 1972 Dizzy began another campaign for President but immediately withdrew when he realized that running for public office and participating in politics was not encouraged in the Bahá'í faith to which he had converted since 1968.

Election history: Crowell and Diller- none

Other occupations: Crowell- housewife; Diller- comedian, author

Buried: Diller- ashes scattered in the Pacific Ocean.

Notes:
Because of the nebulous nature of who the actual running mate was, I have taken the unusual step of merging the thumbnail sketches for these two candidates Crowell and Diller.

Mark Revell Shaw

Mark Revell Shaw, January 22, 1889 (Grand Rapids, Mich.) - June 4, 1978 (State College, Penn.)

VP candidate for Prohibition Party (1964)

Running mate with nominee: E. Harold Munn (1903-1992)
Popular vote: 23,267 (0.03%)    
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

At their August 1963 the Prohibition Party nominated 1960 VP candidate E. Harold Munn for President and Methodist minister Mark. R. Shaw, age 74, as his running mate.

Although the 1964 Prohibition Party had some strong anti military-industrial complex language, the Party continued to drift to Right in terms of school integration, federal aid to education, and states' rights. The Platform also stated: "We declare our belief that the Bible is not a sectarian book, but is a volume of universal appeal and application which is woven into our history, our laws, and our culture. We deplore any interpretation which would limit its use in any area of our national life."

VP nominee Shaw had a long history of promoting pacifism and had considerable travel experience in his role as a missionary. His statement on "confusionism" during the 1964 campaign is interesting and consistent with the Party's stand against growing militarism in that era:

Confusionism, which so permeates our social order and threatens our body politic, seems daily to be more confounded. Take, for example the case of Senator Goldwater. For years, he has been crusading against the Communists, at home and abroad. He has been so concerned that he talks of sending the Marines to Cuba and of using atomic weapons in Viet Nam. Few, whether or not they agree with his ideas, doubt his sincerity. Yet, who is doing more to aid the Communists that he ­ because he seems unable, or unwilling, to see things in perspective?
    Think of the hundreds of millions of underprivileged, poverty-stricken people among the colored races in Africa, Latin America, and Asia, many of whose parents suffered at the hands of White imperialism and colonialism. Today, they struggle to be free, to gain a new sense of dignity and equality, so long denied them.
    In the contest between democracy and communism for the minds of these millions, what greater boon could be given to the thousands of communist propagandists seeking for converts in Africa and Asia than for the news to be flashed around the world next November that Barry Goldwater, after he had voted against the Civil Rights Act, had been elected President by the people of The United States?

Prohibition Party historian Roger Storms wrote: Shortly after Mark Shaw was nominated for Vice President of the United States, a Maryland woman wrote to him on a postcard:  "Do you really think that Prohibition is something that can stir support from the American people in this election? I don't." To this he replied: "Neither do I. But, I think it ought to, and that makes all the difference."

With votes recorded in 11 states their best results were in Kansas 0.63%, Indiana 0.40%, and Delaware 0.21%. As of today their national finish of 0.03% has never been surpassed since 1964.

Election history:
1946 - US Senate (Mass.) (Prohibition Party) - defeated
1948 - Governor of Massachusetts (Prohibition Party) - defeated
1950 - Governor of Massachusetts (Prohibition Party) - defeated
1952 - US Senate (Mass.) (Prohibition Party) - defeated
1956 - Governor of Massachusetts (Prohibition Party) - defeated
1958 - US Senate (Mass.) (Prohibition Party) - defeated
1960 - US Senate (Mass.) (Prohibition Party) - defeated
1962 - US Senate (Mass.) (Prohibition Party) - defeated
1966 - US Senate (Mass.) (Prohibition Party) - defeated
1967 - Prohibition Party nomination for President - defeated
1970 - US Senate (Mass.) (Prohibition Party) - defeated
1971 - Prohibition Party nomination for President - defeated

Other occupations: Methodist minister, international missionary, editor of Peace Action

Buried: ?

Notes:
Winner of the 1946 race was Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., one of Shaw's other opponents was future 1964
 Socialist Labor Party VP nominee Henning A. Blomen.
Winner of the 1952 and 1958 race was John F. Kennedy.
One of his opponents in the 1956 race was Henning A. Blomen.
Winner of the 1962 and 1970 race was Ted Kennedy.
Winner of the 1966 race was Edward W. Brooke.
Was raised by parents who were active prohibitionists.
Member and officer in the National Council for the Prevention of War starting in the 1930s.
Graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University 1913.

Henning Albert Blomen

Henning Albert Blomen,  September 28, 1910 (New Bedford, Mass.) – July 14, 1993 (North Reading, Mass.)

VP candidate for Socialist Labor Party (aka Labor Party aka Industrial Government Party) (1964)

Running mate with nominee: Eric Hass (1905-1980)
Popular vote: 45,189 (0.06%)    
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

Eric Hass was nominated as the Socialist Labor Party choice for President for the fourth and final time in 1964. His running mate was a biennial SLP candidate in Massachusetts, Henning Blomen. Every two years from 1934 to 1970 Blomen was without fail on the ballot as a SLP candidate running for office never attaining even 1% of the popular vote in any of those races.

As usual, the SLP platform was presented in essay form. The 1964 platform is one of the more enduring documents to come from this party, not necessarily locked into the current events of that day. It chiefly addresses the existential disconnect felt by American workers in an industrial society and proposes their brand of socialism as the solution, interestingly without mentioning Marx or De Leon. Their comment on the Constitution can be applied to most of the other third parties using the election process to enact change:

The American Constitution, in effect, legalizes revolution. The right to alter or abolish the social system and form of government is implicit in Article V, the Constitution's amendment clause. The Socialist Labor Party proposes to the American workers that we use our huge majorities at the polls to outlaw capitalist ownership and to make the means of social production the property of all the people collectively.

The SLP placed fourth, after Unpledged Electors, just slightly below their 1960 results but it was still a relatively impressive finish compared with all the other third parties in the 1964 Presidential race. With votes recorded in 19 states they placed best in such varied states as Washington 0.62%, New Mexico 0.37%, Virginia 0.28%, and New Jersey 0.25%.

Election history:
1934 - Massachusetts Auditor (Socialist Labor Party) - defeated
1936 - Lt. Governor of Massachusetts (Socialist Labor Party) - defeated
1938 - Governor of Massachusetts (Socialist Labor Party) - defeated
1940 - Governor of Massachusetts (Socialist Labor Party) - defeated
1942 - Governor of Massachusetts (Socialist Labor Party) - defeated
1944 - Governor of Massachusetts (Socialist Labor Party) - defeated
1946 - US Senate (Mass.) (Socialist Labor Party) - defeated
1948 - US Senate (Mass.) (Socialist Labor Party) - defeated
1950 - Massachusetts Treasurer (Socialist Labor Party) - defeated
1952 - Massachusetts Treasurer (Socialist Labor Party) - defeated
1954 - Massachusetts Treasurer (Socialist Labor Party) - defeated
1956 - Governor of Massachusetts (Socialist Labor Party) - defeated
1958 - Governor of Massachusetts (Socialist Labor Party) - defeated
1960 - Governor of Massachusetts (Socialist Labor Party) - defeated
1962 - Governor of Massachusetts (Socialist Labor Party) - defeated
1966 - Governor of Massachusetts (Socialist Labor Party) - defeated
1968 - US President (Socialist Labor Party) - defeated
1970 - Governor of Massachusetts (Socialist Labor Party) - defeated

Other occupations: stationary store shipper, machine assembler shipper for a coffee importer, chemical plant worker

Buried: ?

Notes:
His wife Constance "Connie" Zimmerman Blomen was the SLP VP nominee in 1976.
Winner of the 1946 race was Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., one of Blomen's other opponents was future
 1964 Prohibition Party VP nominee Mark Revell Shaw.
One of his opponents in the 1956 race was Mark Revell Shaw.
Parents were Swedish immigrants, 1903-1906.

Edward Shaw

Edward Shaw, July 13, 1923 (Zion, Ill.) – November 9, 1995 (Hialeah, Fla.)

VP candidate for Socialist Workers Party (aka Militant Workers Party) (1964)

Running mate with nominee: Clifton DeBerry (1923–2006)
Popular vote: 32,706 (0.05%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

In 1964 when the Socialist Workers Party was starting their long process of phasing out of Trotskyism into a guiding policy of Castroism they nominated Clifton DeBerry for President. It was the first Presidential election out their five that the SWP did not run Party Godfather Farrell Dobbs in the top slot, instead they ran his reported son-in-law. At the time some sources claimed DeBerry was the first African American to run for a President on a "real" party ticket.

The VP nomination went to longtime SWP activist Ed Shaw, a member of the Party since the 1940s. A Merchant Marine during WWII, Shaw had experienced union and racial problems firsthand, and his exposure to other countries in the course of his travels widened his political perspective. He became particularly interested in Cuba after Castro's regime took power and toured the country extensively in 1960. He also served as Midwest Director of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee.

The Party's platform included: "1) an end to both military build-up at home and Vietnam-type adventurism abroad; 2) a militantly anti-racist government policy; 3) an end to HUAC and all it stands for; 4) 30 hour work week, with 40 hours' pay to end unemployment; 5) a government-guaranteed college education for all youth; 6) No taxes on incomes under $7500; 7) nationalize banks, basic industries, all natural resources; institution of a planned economy, planned for human betterment, not individual profit."

The main focus of the actual SWP campaign was on African American civil rights and recognition of Cuba. They made their appeal to college and university students and black nationalist followers of Malcolm X. Support of President Johnson as the lesser of two evils with Barry Goldwater as the alternative was a constant barrier in recruiting supporters for the SWP activists. For example, groups like the Students for a Democratic Society used the slogan "Part of the Way with LBJ" rather than "All the Way with LBJ." The Socialist Workers were also attempting to recruit the remnants of the Norman Thomas socialists.

Although the Vietnam War was not the dominant issue it would later become, the SWP noted at the time that the Gulf of Tonkin incident which would result in escalated military intervention was suspicious and the product of "cynical calculations."

The SWP support for Malcolm X and the Cuban government widened some fissures within the Party and a number of members were either expelled or simply moved on to another group. Among the refugees was thrice SWP VP candidate Myra Tanner Weiss and future politico-cult leader Lyndon Larouche.

Shaw, who was a printer for the New York Times in 1964, remarked during the campaign, "The New York Times has a long-standing tradition of standing by its own people. But they put it aside in my case and failed to endorse me. Of course, the fact that I'm running for Vice President on the Socialist Workers Party ticket might have some bearing on that."

With votes recorded in 13 states the SWP experienced a slight drop from the 1960 election. Their best states in 1964: Colorado 0.33%, New Jersey 0.29%, and Pennsylvania 0.22%.

Election history: none

Other occupations: printer, Merchant Marine (WWII), soldier (Korean War), auto worker, machinist in aircraft engine shop, Midwest Director of Fair Play for Cuba Committee

Buried: ?

Notes:
Was a lifelong Party activist.
Favorite popular authors were Mark Twain and Kurt Vonnegut.
Had a large tattoo on his bicep.
His Party name was "Atwood."

Jesse Benjamin Stoner Jr.

Jesse Benjamin Stoner Jr., April 13, 1924 (LaFayette, Ga.) – April 23, 2005 (LaFayette, Ga.)

VP candidate for National States' Rights Party (1964)

Running mate with nominee: John Kasper (1929-1998)
Popular vote: 6,953 (0.01%)    
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

US Sen. Barry Goldwater running for President as a Republican in 1964 was a dream come true for many ultra Right-wing voters. The Republicans preempted the issues and policies for several conservative third parties leaving only the most extreme of the extremes as compared to other election years.

The Constitution Party was pretty far Right on the political spectrum, sure. You would think George Lincoln Rockwell running for President (without a VP candidate from what I can gather) under the American Nazi Party might have the distinction of being the most openly fascistic of the political parties in the 1964 campaign. But then there is the National States' Rights Party.

John Kasper, the Presidential nominee of the National States' Rights Party, was already well-known for hate speech and had served prison time for conspiracy in 1957. Kasper had been active in the 1956 "Ez for Prez" Ezra Pound campaign. According to the Constitution Kasper would have been too young to have taken office if he had been elected.

The VP nominee was Jesse Benjamin "J.B." Stoner Jr.-- KKK member, anti-Semite, racist, white supremacist, church bomber, terrorist, and early member of the NSRP.

An admirer of segregationist Theodore Bilbo, Stoner started his own local chapter of the KKK in Tennessee and created the Stoner Christian Anti-Jewish Party in the 1940s declaring that "being a Jew [should] be a crime punishable by death."

A suspect in many acts of Right-wing terrorism, Stoner was eventually convicted in 1980 for a 1958 church bombing attempt.

Authorities blamed Stoner for inciting a race riot in St. Augustine, Fla. during the campaign.

The NSRP ticket made the ballot in two states finishing with 0.33% of the vote in Kentucky and 0.53% in Arkansas.

Election history:
1948 - US House of Representatives (Independent) - defeated
1970 - Democratic nomination for Governor of Georgia - defeated
1972 - Democratic nomination for US Senate (Ga.) - defeated
1974 - Democratic nomination for Lt. Governor of Georgia - defeated
1978 - Democratic nomination for Governor of Georgia - defeated
1980 - Democratic nomination for US Senate (Ga.) - defeated
1990 - Democratic nomination for Lt. Governor of Georgia - defeated

Other occupations: attorney (disbarred), insurance claims adjuster

Buried: Forest Hills Cemetery (Chattanooga, Tenn.)

Notes:
Contracted polio as a small child.
Winner of the 1970 primary was Jimmy Carter.
One of his opponents in the 1972 primary was Sam Nunn.
Winner of the 1974 primary was Zell Miller.
Winners of the 1980 primary were Herman Talmadge and Zell Miller.
Served three and half years in prison in the 1980s for the 1958 church bombing.
Considered a suspect by the FBI in the assassination of Martin Luther King.
Was on James Earl Ray's appeals legal team.
"Stoner ran for governor of Georgia in 1970. During the campaign, where he called himself the
 'candidate of love,' he described Adolf Hitler as 'too moderate,' black people as an extension of the
 ape family, and Jews as 'vipers of hell.'"--Wikipedia.
"He never married and once told an interviewer that any woman 'would be too dumb for him.'"--Los
  Angeles Times obituary.
"Only through intolerance do nations become great."--J.B. Stoner.
"We had lost the fight for the preservation of the white race until God himself intervened in earthly
 affairs with AIDS to rescue and preserve the white race that he had created ... I praise God all the
 time for AIDS.--J.B. Stoner.
Lester Maddox, yes, THAT Lester Maddox, even he refused to share the same stage with Stoner.
"He was, perhaps, the most malevolent racist in America."--Larry Keller.

Theodore Conrad Billings

Theodore Conrad Billings, May 6, 1906 (Providence, Ohio) - May, 1977 (Denver, Colo.?)

VP candidate for Constitution Party (1964)

Running mate with nominee: Joseph Benton Lightburn (1899-1980)
Popular vote: 5,061 (0.01%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

At the Constitution Party convention in Houston on July 26, 1964 Joseph B. Lightburn, a longtime Party activist and West Virginia small retail businessman, was a surprise nomination for President. Most observers expected the nod to go former FDR son-in-law Curtis Dall or Texan Bert Ellis.

The VP choice was Theodore "Ted" Billings, owner of a Denver health food store called Lifeguard Foods, and, according to a December 1963 FBI report investigating Billings' reported public threats about shooting President Kennedy prior to the assassination, an anti-Semitic "loudmouth."

The convention had 54 delegates (half of them from Texas) from 12 states.

The Party and candidates had a lengthy list of issues that were aired during the campaign: repeal of the Civil Rights Act, support of states' rights, getting the USA out of the UN, eliminate federal aid to education, repeal the income tax, legally require a federal balanced budget, eliminate the Army and use state militias instead, end foreign alliances, end fluoridation of water, bring back prayer and Bible reading in public school, end medical inoculations and immunizations and vaccinations including for polio (Lightburn: "It's mass medication. The people don't know what's in those drugs or what all the effects might be."), end social security, withdraw from the Vietnam War, and repeal the Federal Reserve act of 1913.

Apparently the Republican nominee, Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona was not conservative enough for them. They used Lightburn's initials "JBL" which was "LBJ" in reverse as way to gain attention and employed the slogan "Let a Lightburn in the White House." Billings said his hometown of Whitehouse Village, Ohio was prophetic.

In a revealing news account, reporter James A. Haught interviewed Lightburn with Party official W.J. "Woody" Kerns, who shows up as a peripheral figure in JFK assassination theory literature. Kerns is quoted: "The Communist takeover is all set up. The controlled press and television are in on it. A couple of missiles from Cuba-- that would provide the emergency. Then they could declare martial law by executive order, and the assassin squads could come around and kill all real patriots ..."

Lightburn finished Kerns' thought with a grim smile, "They'd get me first or else send me off to Alaska." Kerns then continued and clarified, "They built a big mental hospital up there ... where they could give people drugs or five-minute lobotomies. But the earthquake shook it down. God is working ... The whole story is a battle between Christ and the anti-Christ. The conspiracy is the anti-Christ. It's satanic ... the U.N. is part of it-- a one-world Babylonian government ... A certain group of people say they're God's elect, but the Bible shows us that's not true." Lightburn jumped in to qualify, "It's the international bankers. Most of them are Jews, but some are Gentiles."

They were on the ballot only in Texas where they captured 0.19% of the popular vote in the Lone Star State. President Johnson won Texas with 63.32% of the vote.

Election history: none

Other occupations: sales clerk, health food store owner, Constitution Party newspaper publisher, author, pamphleteer

Buried: ?

Notes:
His surname also appears as Billing in several sources.
Lived in Whitehouse Village, Ohio with his parents until the early 1930s.
Married 1933 in Ohio, but by 1942 was divorced and living in Chicago.
His father Conrad Billing died a month before the Constitution Party convention.
Recorded a comic vanity record Dec. 1930 entitled "Adam and Evy."
Formerly a registered Republican.

William Richard Rogers

William Richard Rogers, May 1, 1923 (Rougemont, NC) - May 25, 2015 (Fulton, Mo.)

VP candidate for Theocratic Party (1964)

Running mate with nominee: Homer A. Tomlinson (1892-1968)
Popular vote: 24 (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

Early in the campaign season perennial candidate Homer A. Tomlinson (Theocratic Party) endorsed perennial candidate Harold E. Stassen (Republican) for President. In fact, Tomlinson said the Theocratic Party would give Stassen the Presidential nomination with Richard Nixon as his running mate in a heartbeat. But Stassen and Nixon had other plans, so Tomlinson had no choice but to run for President himself. It would be his fourth attempt and he declared at the outset in March, 1964, "There's no remote chance I'll be elected."

Tomlinson had been easily nominated at the Theocratic Party convention in Fulton, Mo. His running mate was William ("call me Bill") R. Rogers.

Rogers was elected the National Chair of the Theocratic Party at their convention also in Fulton, Mo. in May 1960, where he was also the pastor of the local Church of God. He served as the campaign manager for the Party's 1960 Presidential campaign.

In May 1964 Tomlinson told an audience in Lawrence, Kansas that he hoped to be a "the dark-dark horse" for the Republican Presidential nomination. An ex-Republican himself, Tomlinson said Goldwater was "75% Theocratic already."

The 1964 "Platform of Righteousness" was already well in place before Tomlinson was nominated:

1. For Union of Church and State in Jesus, Prince of Peace.
2. To keep U.S. Constitution, Freedom of Worship, Liberty.
3. For 10% Tithes for Church and Nation, Instead of Taxes.
4. To Maintain 1964 Scale of Wages, Profits, Progress.
5. For Unlimited Production, Free Enterprise.
6. To End Wars, Crime, Delinquency.
7. To Unite Families, End Divorce.
8. To End Use of Tobacco, Intoxicants. Narcotics, Gambling.
9. To Assure Equality for all Races, Nations.
10. To Abandon Roman Law, English Common Law, Establish New Codes, Civil and Criminal.
11. Establish Bible Reading, Prayer in All Schools.
12. Follow New Revelations in Government and Peace.

Most of the Theocratic Party press conferences took place in Greyhound Bus terminals around the country.

In April 1964 VP nominee Rogers revealed to the press that the Theocratic Party believed the Democratic Party would split when Alabama Gov. George Wallace ran on a third party ticket (Rogers was four years off, but he did indeed see the future, sort of) and in an Electoral College deadlock the US House would turn to the Tomlinson/Rogers ticket to save the country.

In early July 1964 Bill Rogers was driving a car with several passengers in Terre Haute, Ind. and rear-ended another vehicle. No one was killed but the other driver suffered back injuries.

Later in July Rogers told the press he had 93,000 supporters and was planning to show up at the Republican convention since "Divine inspiration was guiding him toward the vice-presidency." Surprisingly, he said he planned to don the sort of crown and robe costume usually worn by Tomlinson and declare the following message at the doors of the convention as he nominated himself as their VP nominee:

Oh, Republicans! I stand at your door and knock. But there is a latch. If you will not lift that latch, I cannot come in. But if you will lift it, I will come in.

Rogers said of himself and Tomlinson: "He's an ex-Republican and I'm an ex-Democrat. This nation needs men who've got wisdom like Solomon, and we've got it."

In a rare joint appearance in Lawrence, Kansas late October in the presence of an audience, Tomlinson (self-proclaimed "King of the World") anointed Rogers on the top of his cranium with drops of olive oil and declared his running mate to be "King of the United States." When asked why a King of the World needs to run for President, Tomlinson answered, "I am king in righteousness. I am like an artist who wants to paint the great picture. The President holds more power than any modern king; therefore I am a candidate for President."

The Party was not on any ballots, once again. The Theocratic ticket was alleged to have earned about 24 votes. Tomlinson thought 1964 would be his final run for President, but 1968 had a surprise in store for him.

Election history:
1968 - US President (Theocratic Party) - withdrew

Other occupations: pastor, missionary, baseball umpire, sailor (US Navy WWII)

Buried: Oak Chapel Methodist Cemetery (Stephens, Mo.)

Notes:
His schooling ended at the 11th grade.
Became a pastor in Tomlinson's church in 1956.
Considered running for President in the 1990s.
One writer says Tomlinson withdrew from the race only days before the election and encouraged
 voters to write-in Harold Stassen, but I can find no primary sources to support that.

Harold Lee Putnam

Harold Lee Putnam, October 5, 1896 (El Dorado, Kan.) - September 5, 1979 (Pinellas, Fla.)

VP candidate for United Party (1964)

Running mate with nominee: Grant Van Tilborg (1918-1974)
Popular vote: 0 (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

The United Party ticket of Van Tilborg/Putnam was one of those stealth campaigns. There is very little information out there concerning this political group. Researchers Alan Anderson and Chick Harris reported in 1965:

UNITED PARTY candidates were Grant Van Tilborg and Harold L. Putnam. The platform called for complete expulsion of all groups which tend to break up the "united" effect of the States. More than 100 organizations were listed as undesirable and included such names as: Communist Party, K.K.K., John Birch Society, N.A.A.C.P., AFL-CIO, Socialistic Parties.

VP nominee Harold L. Putnam was an advertising man who also worked for the Hearst newspapers. In addition he was very active with the Sons of the American Revolution having been elected State President in California in 1938 and then nationally the Executive Secretary in 1950, a position he still held during the 1964 election. He was known for leading crusades against "subversive" school textbooks.

The United Party was not on any ballots and no votes were recorded.

Election history: none

Other occupations: soldier (WWI), advertising, Hearst newspapers

Buried: ?

Notes:
Family moved to Los Angeles area from Kansas between 1900-1910. By 1930 he was living in the
 Bay Area. After his wife's death in 1965 he retired from the SAR in 1966 and at some point moved
 to Florida.
Presbyterian.

Huckleberry Hound

 

The following images are from Huckleberry Hound's 1960 Presidential campaign

Huckleberry Hound, October 2, 1958 (Los Angeles, Calif.) -

VP candidate for Independent (1964)

Running mate with nominee: Yogi Bear (b. 1958)
Popular vote: 0 (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538

The campaign:

In promoting their new Magilla Gorilla Show, Hanna-Barbera cooked up the idea of having their new title character run against the more senior anthropomorphic Yogi Bear. In fact, Magilla's sole opponent seemed to be Yogi. The publicity included a 45 single record, a comic book, and campaign buttons.

Yogi's running mate and campaign manager was Huckleberry Hound. Although Yogi had started out as a supporting character for Huckleberry in 1958, by 1964 the bear had eclipsed the hound in popularity. In fact in 1960 Huckleberry ran for President (apparently without a Vice-Presidential nominee) and Yogi served as his campaign manager. Now four years later the roles were somewhat reversed.

Huckleberry (aka Huck) was a blue coonhound who had adventures in freestyle stories which were occasionally set in historical times. Huck's North Carolina accent was voiced by the legendary Daws Butler (also the voice of Yogi Bear). The Hound's leitmotif was an off-key and mangled version of Oh My Darling, Clementine.

And yes, now you can start the Blue Dog Democrat jokes.

Election history:
1960 - US President (Independent) - defeated

Other occupations: jack of all trades

Buried:

Notes:
Six years old in 1964, Huckleberry would not be of legal age for the VP office until 1993.
Full disclosure: As part his vanguard audience I must say Huckleberry Hound was my favorite
 Hanna-Barbera character and remains so.