Nancy Theresa Lord (February 8, 1952 – February 14, 2022) was an American attorney and medical researcher who was the vice-presidential candidate of the Libertarian Party in the 1992 presidential election, as the running-mate of Andre Marrou. Marrou and Lord placed fourth in the popular vote with 290,087 votes (0.3%).Waite, Mark (March 17, 2010
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NewsBank.com. Originally published in '' Pahrump Valley Times''. Retrieved May 25, 2022. Lord was the Libertarian candidate for

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1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

. She also unsuccessfully ran for

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as a Republican in 2010."Nancy Lord Loses Republican Nomination for Nye County, Nevada, District Attorney, by 86 Votes"
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''. June 15, 2010. Retrieved May 25, 2022. Lord completed undergraduate and

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degrees at the

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. She earned her J.D. degree from

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. Until 1983, Lord was employed by

Abbott Laboratories Abbott Laboratories is an American multinational medical devices and health care company with headquarters in Abbott Park, Illinois, in the United States. The company was founded by Chicago physician Wallace Calvin Abbott in 1888 to formulate k ...

, where she authored the successful new drug application for

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hypnotic (" ProSom"). After leaving Abbott, Lord worked as an independent consultant in the areas of pharmaceutical development,

medical malpractice Medical malpractice is a legal cause of action that occurs when a medical or health care professional, through a negligent act or omission, deviates from standards in their profession, thereby causing injury or death to a patient. The negligen ...

, and

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. She served on the boards of directors for

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and for the Fully Informed Jury Association and wrote the introduction to the original edition of ''You and the Police'' by Boston T. Party.Editorial staff She was married to J.J. Johnson, an African-American organizer of the American militia movement. Lord died on February 14, 2022, in Show Low, Arizona, following a bout with

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