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His spot as the chairman of the House Republican Committee was challenged three times after his election [6] and, when Gerald Ford was defeated in the 1976 presidential campaign, Anderson lost a key ally in Washington. [27] In 1970 and 1972, Anderson had a Democratic challenger in Rockford Professor John E. Devine.
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Dec 4, 2017 · Dec. 4, 2017. John B. Anderson, a former Republican congressman from Illinois who bolted his party to run as a plain-spoken independent candidate for president in 1980, drawing an...
Dec 5, 2017 · Ira Schwarz/AP. John Anderson, the longtime GOP congressman from Illinois who bolted his party in 1980 to run as an independent against President Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, has died. He...
Dec. 4, 2017 1:25 PM PT. John B. Anderson, a former Illinois congressman whose eloquent and quixotic 1980 presidential campaign as an independent became a national sideshow as voters...
Dec 4, 2017 · Posted December 4, 2017 at 6:06pm. Former Rep. John B. Anderson, a Republican from Illinois who shook up the 1980 presidential race by running as an independent, died Sunday in Washington,...
Dec 4, 2017 · U.S. John Anderson, former Illinois congressman and 1980 presidential candidate, dead at 95. December 4, 2017 / 4:35 PM EST / AP. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Former longtime Illinois Congressman...
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Dec 4, 2017 · Politics Dec 4, 2017 5:11 PM EDT. CHICAGO — Former longtime Illinois Congressman John Anderson, who ran for president as an independent in 1980, has died at age 95. The World War II veteran...
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