Andrew Pulley

Andrew Pulley (born May 5, 1951)^[1] is a former American politician who ran as Socialist Workers Party (SWP) candidate for Vice President of the United States in 1972; at the time he was twenty years old, making him ineligible under the United States Constitution.^[2] Along with presidential candidate Linda Jenness, he received 52,799 votes. At the time he ran he was a civil rights movement supporter, steel mill worker and Vietnam War U.S. Army veteran who'd opposed the war. He ran for Mayor of Chicago, Illinois in 1978 and then was the SWP candidate for president in 1980,^[3] when he received 40,105 votes.

References

↑ "Woman Candidate Can't Win, Too Young To Serve". Sarasota Journal. 1971-09-06. pp. 4.B. Retrieved 2012-06-27.
↑ Martin Waldron. The Socialist Campaign: Low Funds, High Hopes. St. Petersburg Times. January 2, 1972:9-A.
↑ Jeff Samuels. Mill Worker's Sights Set on White House. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. November 27, 1979 [Retrieved January 18, 2010].

Party political offices
Preceded by Paul Boutelle	Socialist Workers Party nominee for Vice President of the United States 1972	Succeeded by Willie Mae Reid
Preceded by Peter Camejo	Socialist Workers Party nominee for President of the United States 1980	Succeeded by Melvin T. Mason

Nominee	Richard Nixon

VP nominee	Spiro Agnew

Candidates	John M. Ashbrook Pete McCloskey

Nominee	George McGovern

VP nominee	Sargent Shriver

Candidates	Shirley Chisholm Walter E. Fauntroy Fred R. Harris Vance Hartke Wayne Hays Hubert Humphrey Henry M. Jackson John Lindsay Eugene McCarthy Wilbur Mills Patsy Mink Edmund Muskie Terry Sanford George Wallace Sam Yorty

Nominee	E. Harold Munn

Nominee	Louis Fisher

Nominee	Linda Jenness Alternate nominee: Evelyn Reed

VP nominee	Andrew Pulley

Candidates: John B. Anderson; Howard Baker; George H. W. Bush; John Connally; Phil Crane; Bob Dole; Ben Fernandez; Harold Stassen

Other independent and third party candidates

Citizens Party	Nominee Barry Commoner VP nominee LaDonna Harris

Libertarian Party	Nominee Ed Clark VP nominee David Koch

Prohibition Party	Nominee Ben Bubar VP nominee Earl Dodge

Socialist Party	Nominee David McReynolds VP nominee Diane Drufenbrock

Socialist Workers Party	Nominee Andrew Pulley Alternate nominees Richard Congress Clifton DeBerry

Workers World Party	Nominee Deirdre Griswold VP nominee Gavrielle Holmes

Independents and other candidates	Lyndon LaRouche Maureen Smith Running mate Elizabeth Cervantes Barron Warren Spannaus

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