Earle Harold Munn (November 29, 1903 – June 6, 1992) was an American politician who served as the chairman of the

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. With the Prohibition Party, he ran as a third-party candidate for President and Vice President of the United States.

Early life and education

Earle Harold Munn was born on November 29, 1903, to Earle Orren Munn and Ella Carrie Deming in

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. He attended

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and in 1928, he graduated from the

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with a master's degree. From 1927 to 1937 he served as a teacher at Central Academy and College and later became a professor at Greenville College and Hillsdale College.

Political career

During the 1932 presidential election, Munn supported

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in an attempt to save

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, but Hoover was defeated in a landslide. In 1941, he ran for a seat on the Michigan Board of Regents as a member of the Prohibition Party. In 1947, he became the chairman of the Michigan Prohibition Party; with the party, he ran for governor in

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and

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. In 1955, he was elected as the national chairman of the party without any opposition. At the Prohibition Party's national convention on September 3, 1959, Rutherford Decker and Munn were given the presidential and vice-presidential nominations for the 1960 presidential election by 95 delegates. On August 27, 1963, around 300 delegates attended the Prohibition National Convention, voting to nominate Munn and Mark R. Shaw as the party's presidential and vice-presidential candidates, respectively. In the

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, Munn received 23,267 votes. On June 29, 1968, 56 delegates attended the convention, nominating a ticket of Munn and Rolland E. Fisher. In the

, Munn received 15,123 votes. On June 25, 1971, Munn won the presidential nomination again, with Marshall E. Uncapher as his running mate. He received 13,497 votes in the

. On June 6, 1992, he died in Hillsdale, Michigan at age 88.

Electoral history

References

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