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'''Rutherford Losey Decker''' (May 17, 1904 – September 1972) was |
'''Rutherford Losey Decker''' (May 17, 1904 – September 1972) was a [[United States]] [[politician]], a longtime member and a [[POTUS|Presidential]] nominee of [[Prohibition Party]] in [[United States presidential election, 1960|1960]], and the President of the [[National Association of Evangelicals]] from 1946 to 1948.<ref>[http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/decker.html Political Graveyard]</ref> |
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Decker was born in [[Elmira, New York]].<ref name="prohibitionists">[http://www.prohibitionists.org/History/Rutherford_Decker_bio.html Prohibitionists]</ref> He was a missionary at the [[American Baptist Home Mission Society]], and preached in [[Fort Morgan, Colorado]] and in [[Denver, Colorado]].<ref name="prohibitionists"/> He also preached at the Temple Baptist Church in [[Kansas City, Missouri]], until he retired in the 1960s.<ref name="prohibitionists"/><ref>[http://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=4201 Our Campaigns]</ref> |
Decker was born in [[Elmira, New York]].<ref name="prohibitionists">[http://www.prohibitionists.org/History/Rutherford_Decker_bio.html Prohibitionists]</ref> He was a missionary at the [[American Baptist Home Mission Society]], and preached in [[Fort Morgan, Colorado]] and in [[Denver, Colorado]].<ref name="prohibitionists"/> He also preached at the Temple Baptist Church in [[Kansas City, Missouri]], until he retired in the 1960s.<ref name="prohibitionists"/><ref>[http://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=4201 Our Campaigns]</ref> |
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==Electoral history== |
==Electoral history== |
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===United States presidential election, 1960=== |
===United States presidential election, 1960=== |
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* [[John F. Kennedy]]/[[Lyndon B. Johnson]] (D) - 34,226,731 (49.72%) and 303 electoral votes (22 states carried) |
* [[John F. Kennedy]]/[[Lyndon B. Johnson]] (D) - 34,226,731 (49.72%) and 303 electoral votes (22 states carried) |
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Revision as of 11:09, 7 June 2016
Rutherford Losey Decker (May 17, 1904 – September 1972) was a United States politician, a longtime member and a Presidential nominee of Prohibition Party in 1960, and the President of the National Association of Evangelicals from 1946 to 1948.[1]
Decker was born in Elmira, New York.[2] He was a missionary at the American Baptist Home Mission Society, and preached in Fort Morgan, Colorado and in Denver, Colorado.[2] He also preached at the Temple Baptist Church in Kansas City, Missouri, until he retired in the 1960s.[2][3]
A lifelong resident of Missouri, he was nominated for President with party chairman Earle Harold Munn as his running-mate.
Decker and Munn finished fifth with 46,203 (0.07%) votes (and no one electoral vote). Munn succeeded Decker as a presidential nominee in 1964. They appeared on ballots in 11 states: Alabama, Delaware, Michigan, California, Massachusetts, Texas, Tennessee, New Mexico, Kansas, Indiana and Montana. Decker and Munn never received over 1% of the vote in any of these states.
Electoral history
United States presidential election, 1960
- John F. Kennedy/Lyndon B. Johnson (D) - 34,226,731 (49.72%) and 303 electoral votes (22 states carried)
- Richard Nixon/Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (R) - 34,108,157 (49.55%) and 219 electoral votes (26 states carried)
- Harry Byrd/Strom Thurmond/Barry Goldwater (ID) - 15 electoral votes (unpledged electors from Mississippi, half of unpledged electors from Alabama and faithless elector from Oklahoma; Thurmond won 14 electoral votes for V.P., Goldwater one. Byrd all 15 for President)
- Eric Hass/Georgia Cozzini (Socialist Labor) - 47,522 (0.07%)
- Rutherford Decker/Earle Harold Munn (Prohibition) - 46,203 (0.07%)
- Orval E. Faubus/John G. Crommelin (National States' Rights Party) - 44,984 (0.07%)
References
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