The first person who answers this question gets a free one-year subscription to Ballot Access News (or, if already a subscriber, a free one-year renewal). Barack Obama will be the second presidential candidate in a general election whose name will have been printed on the ballot, whose surname begins with the letter “O”. Who was the first presidential candidate in a general election, whose name was printed on ballots, with a surname starting with “O”?
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On a related note, there has never been a presidential candidate on a ballot in a general election whose surname started with these letters: I, Q, X, and Y. UPDATE: I was wrong about “Y”; thanks to that scholarly commenter for correcting this!
Charles O’Connor 1872 Straight- Out Democrat
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On a related note, there has never been a presidential candidate on a ballot in a general election whose surname started with these letters: I, Q, X, and Y.
2000 – Louie Youngkeit
1992 – John Yiamouyiannis
1988 – Louie Youngkeit
Not too many votes for these guys though.
I met John Yia … well, I don’t think that’s the correct spelling.
Anyway, I met him in Los Angeles in 1975. He had come to town to help with an anti-fluoride campaign.
Can you tell me about his campaign for president?
Was there a party listing?
Many thanks.
P.S. Apparently that IS the correct spelling, according to Google. Sorry I misremembered. mm
It appears that there is only on ‘n’ in O’Conor. We was the first Roman Catholic to be nominated for President and had been a lawyer for Jefferson Davis in his treason trial. I didn’t find anything about his position on Prohibition.
His running mate was John Quincy Adams, grandson of the 6th President John Quincy Adams, and son of Charles Francis Adams, who was a leader in the Liberal Republican movement that had nominated Horace Greeley.