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Featured article: Roger MacBride
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 Republican elector, he cast his vote for the Libertarian candidates John Hospers and Tonie Nathan. In 1976, he was selected as the Libertarian presidential candidate, with David Bergland as his running mate. MacBride was a faithless elector from Virginia in 1972 when he cast his electoral vote for John Hospers and Tonie Nathan, also becoming the first person in US history to cast an electoral college vote for a woman.