Odd candidates who got votes at the party conventions

[RBH]

http://www.ourcampaigns.com/ContainerHistory.html?ContainerID=2094&ShowPrimaries=Y

I don't know if Paul "Bear" Bryant really got one vote at the 1968 DNC.

Then again, this..

http://www.ourcampaigns.com/ContainerHistory.html?ContainerID=5768&ShowPrimaries=Y

claims all sorts of wacky VP convention votes.

Especially the 1972 DNC VP ballot.

They should have went with McGovern/Farenthold!

[RBH]

http://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=36445

She was apparently in the Texas state legislature, and she got to a runoff in the Governor's race in 1972.

[RBH]

That page claims that Robert Bork got a vote for President in 1996.

And the page also claims a vote for Roger Staubach for VP in 1976 at the RNC.

And a vote for Hunter S. Thompson for VP at the 1976 DNC.

Ford/Staubach v. Carter/Thompson!

The 1972 DNC VP results

Thomas F. Eagleton 1,742 59.07%   
Frances T. "Sissy" Farenthold 405 13.73%   
Maurice "Mike" Gravel 226 7.66%   
Endicott "CHUB" Peabody 108 3.66%   
Clay Smothers 74 2.51%   
Birch Evan Bayh 62 2.10%   
Peter Wallace Rodino, Jr. 57 1.93%
Jimmy Carter 30 1.02%   
Shirley A. Chisholm 20 0.68%   
Maurice Edwin "Moon" Landrieu 19 0.64%   
Edward T. "Ned" Breathitt 18 0.61%   
Ted Kennedy 15 0.51%   
Fred Roy Harris 14 0.47%
Richard G. Hatcher 11 0.37%   
Harold Everett Hughes 10 0.34%   
Joseph Manuel Montoya 9 0.31%   
Adlai Ewing Stevenson III 8 0.27%   
William L. Guy 8 0.27%   
Robert "Bob" Bergland 5 0.17% 
Hodding Carter, III 5 0.17%   
César Estrada Chávez 5 0.17%   
Wilbur D. Mills 5 0.17%   
Roberto A. Mondragon 4 0.14%   
John J. Houlihan 4 0.14%   
Ronald V. "Ron" Dellums 4 0.14% 
Stanley Arnold 4 0.14%   
Wendell Richard "Wendy" Anderson 4 0.14%   
Herman Badillo 3 0.10%   
Claiborne de Borda Pell 3 0.10%   
J. Terry Sanford 3 0.10%   
Eugene Joseph McCarthy 3 0.10% 
Reubin O'Donovan Askew 3 0.10%   
H. Patrick "Pat" Taylor Jr. 2 0.07%
Ernest Gruening 2 0.07%   
Leonard F. Woodcock 2 0.07%   
Abraham Alexander Ribicoff 2 0.07%   
Claude D. Pepper 2 0.07% 
Edmund Sixtus Muskie 2 0.07%   
Roger Mudd 2 0.07%   
John DeCarlo 2 0.07%   
Richard J. Daley 2 0.07%   
Ramsey Clark 2 0.07%   
Eleanor Stegeberg McGovern 1 0.03% 
Mao Zedong 1 0.03%   
Allard K. Lowenstein 1 0.03%   
Robert Kariss 1 0.03%   
Henry Martin "Scoop" Jackson 1 0.03%   
Dan Inouye 1 0.03%   
James Baxter "Jim" Hunt, Jr. 1 0.03% 
Ralph Nader 1 0.03%   
George Norcross 1 0.03%   
Jerry Rubin 1 0.03%   
Fred Seaman 1 0.03%   
Joe Smith 1 0.03%   
Benjamin Spock 1 0.03% 
George Corley Wallace 1 0.03%   
Martha Mitchell 1 0.03%   
Patricia R. Harris 1 0.03%   
Martha Griffiths 1 0.03%   
Patrick Tavolacci 1 0.03%   
Charles Hamilton 1 0.03% 
Michael Griffin 1 0.03%   
Ernest Albright 1 0.03%   
William A. Barrett 1 0.03%   
Daniel Berrigan 1 0.03%   
Philip Berrigan 1 0.03%   
Julian Bond 1 0.03% 
William Bonnette 1 0.03%   
Hargrove "Skipper" Bowles 1 0.03%   
Archibald "Archie" Bunker 1 0.03%   
Phillip Burton 1 0.03%   
William V. "Bill" Chappell, Jr. 1 0.03%   
Lawton Mainor Chiles, Jr. 1 0.03% 
Frank Forrester Church 1 0.03%   
Leon Cook 1 0.03%   
George A. Dowdy 1 0.03%   
Robert Frederick Drinan 1 0.03%   
Nick Galifianakis 1 0.03%   
John Goodrich 1 0.03% 
Bruno Agnoli 1 0.03%

This actually delayed the DNC so far that McGovern's speech started at 2am.