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Earl Dodge
American politician

Earl Dodge

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Revere, USA
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Denver International Airport, USA
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74 years
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Biography

Earl Farwell Dodge, Jr. (December 24, 1932 – November 7, 2007) was an American politician who served as the Prohibition Party's chairman and presidential candidate from the 1984 to 2000 presidential elections and later ran with the nomination of his own faction during the 2004 presidential election.

Life

Earl Farwell Dodge, Jr. was born on December 24, 1932, to Earl Farwell and Dorothy May Harris in Malden, Massachusetts. He attended school until the tenth grade and on July 20, 1951, he married Barbara Regan. In 1952, he joined the Prohibition Party after attending a rally hosted by future Prohibition vice-presidential nominee Mark R. Shaw.

Politics

From 1953 to 1956, he served as the executive secretary of the Massachusetts Prohibition Party and ran for Massachusetts Secretary of State in 1956. In 1956, he moved to Indiana and from 1958 to 1961, he served as the chairman of the Indiana Prohibition Party and ran for Indiana's second congressional district in 1960. From 1961 to 1962, he lived in Denver, Colorado. From 1962 to 1966, he worked for the National Christian Citizens Committee and ran for the United States Senate.

From 1958 to 1962, he served as the co-chairman of the Prohibition Party under E. Harold Munn. In 1967, he was appointed to the Kalamazoo Community Relations Board and served until 1970. In 1974, he was appointed to the Colorado State Elections Advisory Board. In 1979, he was selected to served as the chairman of the National Statesman Party, which the Prohibition Party had changed its name to in 1977, and served until 2003.

He also ran for the governorship of Colorado with the Prohibition nomination in every election from 1974 to 1994 except for in 1990. In 1990, he ran in Colorado's Senate election while his daughter, Karen J. Thiessen, ran for state Treasurer, his son, Calvin G. Dodge, ran for Secretary of State, and Calvin's wife, Elsi, ran for the regent of Colorado University.

Presidential

During the 1976 and 1980 presidential elections he was given the vice-presidential nomination of the Prohibition Party.

On June 24, 1983, forty five delegates voted to give Dodge the presidential nomination in Mandan, North Dakota for the 1984 presidential election and on January 3, 1984, he suffered a heart attack, but recovered. He appeared on the ballots in North Dakota, New Mexico, Kansas, Arkansas, and Colorado and as a write-in in Ohio and received 4,236 votes.

During the 1988 presidential election he was given the party's presidential nomination again and appeared on the ballot in Arkansas, Tennessee, New Mexico, and Colorado and received 8,002 votes. During the 1992 presidential election he appeared on the ballot in Arkansas, Tennessee, and New Mexico and only received 961 votes. During the 1996 presidential election he appeared on the ballot in Colorado, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Utah and received 1,298 votes.

From June 28 to June 30, 1999, around thirty delegates attended the national convention in Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania and nine voted to give Dodge the presidential nomination against eight voting for Gary R. Van Horn and the vice-presidential nomination to W. Dean Watkins. He attempted to win the Independent American Party presidential nomination to receive ballot access in Utah, but was defeated by U.S. Taxpayers' Party presidential nominee Howard Phillips and in the general election he only appeared on the ballot in Colorado and received 208 votes.

2004 and 2008 presidential campaigns

During his tenure as chairman of the party he was criticized by members for his financial actions. He avoided paying the Social Security tax on money earned through his involvement in the Prohibition Party by laundering it through the National Prohibition Foundation. During Earl Higgerson's ten years as treasurer Dodge refused to allow him to see the party's account books, donor lists, sign checks, or know of actions taken by Dodge on his account. In 1999, he sold the party's headquarters for $119,500 saying that he would use the money to build one on his property, but was alleged to have kept the money for himself and moved the party's headquarters to tool shed.

In 2003, members of the party opposed to him met at a condo in Tennessee and promoted him to chairman emeritus, as a polite way of firing him according to James Hedges. During the 2004 presidential election their faction nominated Gene Amondson under the Concerns of People ballot line while eight delegates from his faction, twenty five delegates according to Dodge, of the party gave him its presidential nomination at his home in Lakewood, Colorado. In the general election he appeared on the ballot in Colorado and received 140 votes while Amondson received 1,944 votes from Colorado and Louisiana.

On June 12, 2007, members of his faction from three states met in a church in Arvada, Colorado where they nominated him for president and Howard Lydic, who received the vice-presidential nomination in 2004, for vice-president. On November 7, Dodge was waiting to board a flight en route from Denver International Airport to Pennsylvania, when he suddenly collapsed due to a cardiac arrhythmia and was taken to the University of Colorado Hospital where he died. Following Dodge's death Howard Lydick worked to unite the two factions of the Prohibition Party behind Gene Amondson before Lydick's own death on August 5, 2008.

Electoral history

Earl Dodge electoral history
PartyCandidateVotes%±
DemocraticEdward J. Cronin (incumbent)1,196,74653.40%+2.22%
RepublicanRichard I. Furbush1,025,29545.75%-2.43%
ProhibitionEarl Dodge10,0300.45%-0.03%
Socialist LaborLawrence Gilfedder9,1810.41%-0.17%
IndependentWrite-ins50.00%+0.00%
Total votes2,241,257100.00%
PartyCandidateVotes%±
RepublicanCharles A. Halleck (incumbent)95,92057.46%+5.23%
DemocraticGeorge H. Bowers70,46442.21%-5.56%
ProhibitionEarl Dodge5530.33%+0.33%
Total votes166,937100.00%
PartyCandidateVotes%±
RepublicanJames B. Pearson (incumbent)350,07752.15%-4.06%
DemocraticJames Floyd Breeding303,22345.17%+2.65%
ProhibitionEarl Dodge9,3641.40%+0.13%
ConservativeGeorge W. Snell7,1031.06%+1.06%
IndependentRobert Ellsworth (write-in)8960.13%+0.13%
IndependentArthur Peine (write-in)6820.10%+0.10%
Total votes671,345100.00%
PartyCandidateVotes%±
DemocraticRichard Lamm441,19953.22%+7.98%
RepublicanJohn D. Vanderhoof (incumbent)378,90745.71%-6.75%
ProhibitionEarl Dodge6,4190.77%+0.77%
U.S. LaborLann Meyers2,3070.28%+0.28%
IndependentLuke Zell (write-in)1360.02%+0.02%
Total votes828,968100.00%
PartyCandidateVotes%±
DemocraticRichard Lamm (incumbent)483,98558.76%+5.54%
RepublicanTed L. Strickland317,29238.53%-7.18%
TeaRoy Peister13,9901.70%+1.70%
Socialist WorkersElsa Blum3,6900.45%+0.45%
NewtistSal A. Mander2,4520.30%+0.30%
ProhibitionEarl Dodge2,1980.27%-0.50%
Total votes823,607100.00%
PartyCandidateVotes%±
DemocraticRichard Lamm (incumbent)627,96065.69%+6.93%
RepublicanJohn Fuhr302,74031.67%-6.86%
LibertarianPaul K. Grant19,3492.02%+2.02%
ProhibitionEarl Dodge3,4960.37%+0.10%
Socialist WorkersAlan Gummerson2,4760.26%-0.19%
Total votes956,021100.00%
PartyCandidateVotes%±
DemocraticRoy Romer616,32558.20%-7.49%
RepublicanTed L. Strickland434,42041.03%+9.36%
ProhibitionEarl Dodge8,1830.77%+0.40%
Total votes1,058,928100.00%
PartyCandidateVotes%±
RepublicanHank Brown569,04855.68%-8.57%
DemocraticJosie Heath425,74641.66%+7.04%
Concerns of the PeopleJohn Heckman15,4321.51%+1.51%
ProhibitionEarl Dodge11,8011.16%+1.05%
Total votes1,022,027100.00%
PartyCandidateVotes%±
DemocraticRoy Romer (incumbent)619,20555.46%-6.43%
RepublicanBruce D. Benson432,04238.70%+3.27%
U.S. Taxpayers'Kevin Swanson40,3973.62%+3.62%
GreenPhillip Huggord16,9561.52%+1.52%
ProhibitionEarl Dodge7,7220.69%+0.09%
IndependentThomas F. Todd (write-in)1230.01%+0.01%
Total votes1,116,445100.00%
PartyCandidateVotes%±
RepublicanJim Martin639,53854.73%
DemocraticDouglas Naiman437,87037.47%
GreenDean Myerson41,0633.51%
Natural LawBarbara Foster39,0453.34%
ProhibitionEarl Dodge10,4150.89%
IndependentWrite-ins6940.06%
Total votes1,116,445100.00%
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Who is Earl Dodge?
Earl Dodge was an American politician and activist who served as the National Prohibition Party's candidate for President of the United States in 1984, 1992, 1996, and 2000.
When was Earl Dodge born?
Earl Dodge was born on November 24, 1932.
What political party did Earl Dodge belong to?
Earl Dodge belonged to the National Prohibition Party, an American political party that advocated for the prohibition of alcohol.
How many times did Earl Dodge run for President?
Earl Dodge ran for President of the United States four times as the candidate of the National Prohibition Party.
What were Earl Dodge's positions on key issues?
Earl Dodge was a strong advocate for the prohibition of alcohol, and he also emphasized other conservative stances, such as opposing abortion and supporting prayer in schools.
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