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Peta Lindsay – Party for Socialism and Liberation Presidential Nominee – 2012

Peta Lindsay (born 1984) is an American anti-war activist and was a presidential nominee of the Party for Socialism and Liberation in the 2012 U.S. presidential election.

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Isabell Masters – Looking Back Party Presidential Nominee – 1992, 1996

Isabell Masters Ph.D. (January 9, 1913 – September 11, 2011) of Topeka, Kansas, was a five-time perennial third-party candidate (Looking Back Party) for President of the United States.

Masters’ five presidential campaigns are the most for any woman in U.S. history.[2] She was a candidate in the United States presidential election, 1984, 1992 (339 votes), 1996, and 2004 presidential elections. In 1996, she was only on the ballot in Arkansas (but also received a few votes in California and Maryland) (752 votes total, 2000).

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Helen Halyard – Workers League Party Presidential Nominee – 1992

Helen Halyard (born 1951) was a third-party candidate for President of the United States in the 1992 presidential election, representing the Socialist Equality Party (US), also called the Workers League. One of the relatively few African-American candidates to run for President, she had previously run twice as their vice-presidential candidate, as Edward Winn‘s running mate, also African-American.

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Margaret Wright – People’s Party Nominee – 1976

Margaret Wright (born circa 1922 or 1923) was a third-party candidate for President of the United States and a community activist in Los Angeles, California.

Wright was a shipyard worker during World War II, and one of the principals of the film The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter. In the United States presidential election, 1976, Wright represented the People’s Party.

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Charlene Mitchell – Communist Party Presidential Nominee – 1968

charlene mitchell 1Charlene Alexander Mitchell (born c. 1930) was an African-American international socialist, feminist, labor and civil rights activist. Formerly a member of the Communist Party USA, which she joined at 16 – emerging as one of the most influential leaders in the party from the late 1950s to the 1980s.

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