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Dec 4, 2017 · John Anderson, former congressman and presidential candidate, dies at 95 00:17. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Former longtime Illinois Congressman John Anderson, who ran for president as an independent in ...
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Dec 4, 2017 · John B. Anderson, a former Republican congressman from Illinois who challenged the two-party system by running as an independent candidate in the 1980 presidential election, has died. He was 95.
May 30, 2011 · Jim Mason’s book “No Holding Back: the 1980 John B. Anderson Presidential Campaign” is about to be published, and can be pre-ordered at Amazon. This book is considerably longer than an earlier history about that campaign, “Diary of a Dark Horse.”. Anderson made history by being the first independent presidential candidate (as opposed ...
Dec 4, 2017 · John B. Anderson of Illinois, ... and he was the prototype for the kind of centrist third-party presidential candidate that so many pundits and billionaires long for in today’s era of partisan ...
Sep 26, 2020 · The first 1980 presidential debate featured former Sen. John Anderson of Illinois, running as an independent, and former California Gov. Ronald Reagan, the R...
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The 1980 United States presidential election was the 49th quadrennial presidential election, held on November 4, 1980. The Republican nominee, former California governor Ronald Reagan, defeated incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter in a landslide victory . Carter's unpopularity and poor relations with Democratic leaders encouraged an ...
Dec 4, 2017 · 12/04/2017 05:41 PM EST. CHICAGO — Former longtime Illinois Rep. John Anderson, who ran for president as an independent in 1980, has died at age 95. The World War II veteran and former ...
