Roger MacBride

Roger MacBride
Personal Details
Birth:	August 6, 1927
Death:	March 5, 1995(1995-03-05) (aged 67)
Education:	Princeton University Harvard University
Occupation:	television producer, lawyer
Party:	Republican (prior to 1972, 1983-1995) Libertarian (1972-1983)
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Roger L. MacBride (August 6, 1927—March 5, 1995) was the adopted grandson and protegee of libertarian writer Rose Wilder Lane, daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the "Little House on the Prairie" series of books. In 1972, as a "faithless" Republican elector from Virginia, he cast his electoral college vote for the Libertarian Party's first national ticket of John Hospers and Tonie Nathan, also becoming the first person in US history to cast an electoral college vote for a woman. In 1976, he was selected as the Libertarian presidential candidate, with David Bergland as his running mate.

In 1983, MacBride rejoined the Republican Party, and became a major benefactor of the Republican Liberty Caucus, a group of libertarians working within the Republican Party. In 1994, he was elected chair of the RLC, and helped launch the Congressional Liberty Caucus, a group of self-proclaimed libertarians in the House of Representatives. MacBride died in 1995 at the age of 67. He was inducted into the Hall of Liberty posthumously in 2012.

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Campaign Staff

Press secretary: C. Ronald Kimberling

State-Level "MacBride for President committees - Staffers and volunteers

IA: Iowa MacBride for President committee - Dale Roewe: Treasurer/fundraiser

Election results

1976 United States Presidential election

Party	Name/Running Mate	Electoral Votes	Percent	Votes
Democratic	Jimmy Carter / Walter Mondale	297	50.08%	40,831,881
Republican	Gerald Ford / Bob Dole	240	48.01%	39,148,634
Independent	Eugene McCarthy / various	0	0.91%	744,763
Libertarian	Roger MacBride / David Bergland	0	0.21%	173,819
American Independent	Lester Maddox / William Dyke	0	0.21%	170,373
American	Thomas Anderson / Rufus Shackelford	0	0.19%	158,724
Socialist Workers	Peter Camejo / Willie Mae Reid	0	0.11%	90,986
Communist	Gus Hall / Jarvis Tyner	0	0.07%	58,709
People's	Margaret Wright / Benjamin Spock	0	0.06%	49,016
US Labor	Lyndon LaRouche / R. Wayne Evans	0	0.05%	40,018
Various	All Others	0	0.09%	75,119

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Preceded by: John Hospers

Libertarian Party Presidential candidate 1976

Succeeded by: Ed Clark