-Caveat Lector- > http://www.latimes.com/obituary/20010304/tCB00V5187.html > > Sunday, March 4, 2001 > > Ex-Minnesota Gov. Stassen Dies at 93 > > BLOOMINGTON, Minn. -Perennial presidential candidate Harold E. > Stassen, whose name became a synonym for political futility despite a > distinguished career as a governor, diplomat and university president, > died Sunday. He was 93. > > Stassen died of natural causes early Sunday at Friendship Village, a > retirement community in this Minneapolis suburb where he had been > living for the last few years, said his granddaughter, Rachel > Stassen-Berger. > > Stassen, a liberal Republican, sought his party's nomination for the > White House 10 times, the first in 1948 and the last in 1992. > > His later campaigns were regarded as little more than political > curiosities, although he pushed a serious platform including global > disarmament, national health care and full employment through public > works projects. > > Though he had not won an election in half a century, Stassen bristled > at being labeled a political Don Quixote. > > "I feel it's really been a winning life," he said in December 1991 as > he filed for the 1992 New Hampshire primary. "Every one of the nine > times there has been some solid result." > > Born April 13, 1907, on a farm near St. Paul, Stassen started his > political career as a county prosecutor. His glory days began in 1938 > when, at age 31, he was elected to the first of three two-year terms > as governor. > > The 1942 election was Stassen's last successful campaign. > > He resigned the governorship in April 1943, four months after > beginning his third term, and joined the Navy, where he served in the > Pacific as assistant chief of staff to Adm. William Halsey. > > Stassen made his first presidential bid in 1948, traveling across the > country to seek the support of GOP convention delegates. He ran on a > liberal platform of federal funds for housing, limited regulation of > labor, international cooperation, and adjustment of federal taxes and > spending to prevent boom-or-bust swings in the economy. > > But he lost the nomination to Thomas E. Dewey, who in turn was > defeated by President Harry Truman. > > After a four-year stint as president of the University of > Pennsylvania, Stassen again jumped into the Republican presidential > race in 1952, facing Dwight Eisenhower and conservative Ohio Sen. > Robert Taft. Stassen swung the convention to Eisenhower by releasing > the Minnesota delegation to him at the end of the first ballot. > > Stassen also ran for president in 1964, 1968, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988 > and 1992. In 1992, he won one delegate in the Minnesota primary. He > later released the delegate to vote for whomever he wished, and > Stassen did not get any votes at the convention. > > Stassen said he regarded his campaigns as a form of expression. > > "You have to run, to be willing to put yourself on the line before you > can be really effective," he said in a 1978 interview. "You can talk > or write about something and it has some meaning, but to be effective > you have to lay it on the line. It's my life." > > Said Gov. Jesse Ventura, paying tribute to Stassen on Sunday: "As > Minnesotans, we can be proud of a statesman who never gave up his > fight for a better state, a better country and a peaceful world." > > Stassen's wife of 70 years and childhood sweetheart, Esther, died last > October. They had a son and a daughter, seven grandchildren and four > great-grandchildren. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
