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* Dr. [[Anne Wortham]] (author; Professor of Sociology, Illinois State University)
* Dr. [[Anne Wortham]] (author; Professor of Sociology, Illinois State University)
* [[John Monds]] became the first [[Libertarian Party]] candidate in [[Georgia]] and the rest of the [[United States]] to receive over 1,000,000 votes when he ran for the Statewide office of Public Service Commission District 1 seat in 2008. Monds received 1,076,726 votes for 33.4% of the vote in a two-way race with only a [[Republican]] opponent. His vote total was highest number of votes that a [[Libertarian]] candidate has ever received in a [[United States]] election at any level, Monds also received the highest percentage of the vote ever for a [[Libertarian]] in a statewide race. He is seeking that party's nomination for Governor of [[Georgia]] in 2010.
* [[John Monds]] became the first [[Libertarian Party]] candidate in [[Georgia]] and the rest of the [[United States]] to receive over 1,000,000 votes when he ran for the Statewide office of Public Service Commission District 1 seat in 2008. Monds received 1,076,726 votes for 33.4% of the vote in a two-way race with only a [[Republican]] opponent. His vote total was highest number of votes that a [[Libertarian]] candidate has ever received in a [[United States]] election at any level, Monds also received the highest percentage of the vote ever for a [[Libertarian]] in a statewide race. He is seeking that party's nomination for Governor of [[Georgia]] in 2010.


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Introduction

Doing justice to any list of "historical libertarians" such as this requires adding the caveat that libertarianism is always a matter of degrees. Even today, when abundant information detailing ideas refined over centuries are mere clicks away, have any of us ever met a person who lived, thought, voted, and acted, entirely in accordance with any particular worldview?

Prior to libertarianism evolving into a coherent and discoverable philosophy in the modern era (when libertarian views no longer necessarily signified a painstaking effort of personal intellectual and/or social development, but could be discovered pre-formed in the thoughts and writings of others), the presence of individuals who were consistent libertarians even in their political positions, let alone in their personal behavior, must have been extremely rare, just as the occurrence of a consistent ideological Marxist, say, or Keynesian, or democrat (small-d, i.e. a believer in democracy), would almost certainly have been equally rare prior to the writings of Marx and Keynes, or the historical development of democracy as a mode of governance.

This being acknowledged, it is worthwhile to recognize historical persons whose lives and actions were on the whole supportive of individual liberty, and who appear from the available evidence to have had more libertarian leanings than most of their contemporaries, and to honor their contributions to humanity's ongoing journey toward an understanding of and commitment to freedom.


Notable historical African American libertarians


Notable living African American libertarians


External Links

List of black libertarians that served as the starting point for information presented on this page – http://chelm.freeyellow.com/black_index.html

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